This month APM Terminals Mo ín made background when it invited the MSC Sara Elena, the biggest container ship to ever before berth in Costa Rica, determining 300m long and also a capability of 8,000 TEUs.

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In 337 lifts, exports of trick Costa Rican exports, consisted of pineapples and also bananas, were packed onto the Sara Elena predestined for Rotterdam, theNetherlands The vessel remained in port for simply under 9 hrs, consisting of the necessary initial phone call events.

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This effective phone call once more verifies the possibility to offer Costa Rica’s economic climate with bigger vessels. APM Terminals Moin has actually been regularly damaging its very own gross actions per hr (GMPH) document, attaining GMPH of 28 in its initial half year of procedure.

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In this initial stage, outfitted with 6 Super-Post Panamax cranes and also 2 berths with a draft of 14.5 m, the terminal can dealing with container ships of approximately 8,500 TEUs, 24 hr a day, 7 days a week, 365 days annually.

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Upon the conclusion of the job’s last stage, the center will certainly cover dual its present location of 40 hectares, with 5 berths, and also can dealing with vessels of approximately 13,000 TEU, the biggest dimension of vessels efficient in going through the Panama Canal locks.

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