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Landguard Terminal was opened in 1967, and was the UK’s first purpose built container handling facility. It is able to provide customers with a productive and consistent level of service, particularly those specialising in shipments on South American, East/West African and Mediterranean/Black Sea trades.
The Terminal offers 554 metres of quay, dredged to a maximum depth of 11.9 metres alongside, and is capable of handling 450,000 TEUs per year. It is equipped with three ship-to-shore gantry cranes (one of which has the twinpick facility) and 10 rubber-tyred gantry cranes.
The Terminal is able to provide over 11,000 TEUs of stacking capacity, and has the ability to handle electric reefer containers, with a dedicated area serviced by a reachstacker for empty containers.
Landguard Terminal is to undergo extensive redevelopment as part of the ‘Felixstowe South Reconfiguration’ scheme, which commenced in 2008. The scheme involves the conversion of the Terminal, together with the area previously used by P&O North Sea Ferries Limited and the Dock Basin, into a new deep-water container terminal.
The Felixstowe South reconfiguration scheme will increase the quay length available for container handling by close to 1,000 metres, giving a total quay length of 1,285 metres. This will allow the terminal to simultaneously handle three of the world’s largest container vessels. The new terminal will be equipped with 13 of the most modern quayside cranes, all equipped with twinpick facility, and 50 rubber-tyred gantry cranes. It will provide a storage capacity of 46,800 TEUs.
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