Asian Terminals

Founded in July 1986 as "Marina Port Services," Asian Terminals manages and operates South Harbor, Manila, on behalf of the Philippine Ports Authority and will do so until May 2038. The South Harbor container terminal provides nine ship-to-shore cranes, 23 rubber-tired-gantry cranes and a variety of other equipment to handle containerized ocean cargo. There are five berths, with a depth alongside of 12 meters, and 260 reefer plugs. The terminal has 250 truck slots and capacity for 1.2 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) ocean-shipping containers. South Harbor also boasts a four-berth general cargo terminal for handling up to one million metric tonnes of bulk and break bulk cargo. The depth alongside is about 10.4 meters and the terminal has two warehouses for the storage of sensitive cargoes. A variety of heavy-lift equipment capable of handling safe working loads between 3 and 32 tonnes are available. Asian Terminals also operates Batangas Container Terminal, about 57 miles to the south of the capital city, Manila. Batangas is a much smaller terminal of two berths with 13 meters depth. It has two ship-to-shore cranes, four rubber-tyred-gantry cranes and an annual capacity of over 300,000 TEUs. This graph shows the total weekly import shipments (both containerized and non-containerized) in the U.S. as reported to U.S. Customs & Border Protection from the beginning of March to November 2019. Source:FreightWaves Sonar. Read more stories by Jim Wilson. Jim is based in Australia but he mostly covers Asia's maritime sectors. He can be reached with comments, suggestions and tips via [email protected].