VICT extends ASC fleet 

The International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) office at the Port of Melbourne, Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT), is broadening its hardware armada with the establishment of six new automated stacking cranes (ASC). 

ICTSI said that the acquisition of the extra stacking cranes for Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) will build its terminal yard and reefer capacity by 30% and 43%, separately. 

The expansion is supposed to be done and functional by the start of 2024, with the assumption of expanding VICT’s yearly throughput limit from 250,000 TEU to 1.25 million TEU. 

The container terminal in Melbourne is additionally set to procure two bigger ship-to-shore cranes, which will carry the absolute number to seven. 

“The new cranes will have an outreach of 22 containers to enable the handling of up to 14,000-twenty-foot-equivalent-units (TEUs) capacity Neo-Panamax ships,” VICT said. 

Under the expansion project, VICT’s quay line, or the area where boats are restricted for stacking and unloading, will be stretched out by 71 meters, which will permit two 336-meter-long vessels to all the whole compartments. 

The container terminal’s development, as would be considered normal to raise VICT’s yearly throughput limit by 250,000 TEUs to 1.25 million TEUs, is planned to be finished and functional toward the start of 2024. 

In the subsequent quarter, ICTSI saw an expansion in volume from its Asia activities by 17.2% to 1.61 million TEUs from 1.38 million TEUs in a similar period last year. 

VICT’s new hardware is important for a continuous development project, which incorporates 15 extra truck networks that will build the terminal’s space accessibility by 30%.