Senior executives from APM Terminals, along with various
elected and appointed Mexico officials, held a groundbreaking ceremony Nov. 9
for the new $900 million Lázaro Cárdenas Terminal 2 (TEC2) deep-water terminal
at the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas.
Mexican Federal Secretary of Communications and Transportation
Dionisio Perez-Jacome Friscione and Fausto Vallejo, the governor of the Mexican
State of Michoacan de Ocampo, were among those on hand to formally lay the
foundation stone for the Pacific Coast terminal, which would be located at
Mexico’s second-busiest container port.
“The new terminal at Lázaro Cárdenas will create tremendous
opportunities for the growth of international trade and new jobs for Michoacan
de Ocampo and for all of Mexico,” Jorgen Nielsen, the general director of APM
Terminals’ Lázaro Cárdenas operations said.
The TEC2 facility will be developed in three stages. The
first, which would have an annual throughput capacity of 1.2 million 20-foot
equivalent units, is expected to begin operations by the first quarter of 2015.
At full build-out, TEC2 is expected to provide shipping
companies with 1,485 meters of berth, 16 ship-to-shore cranes capable of
handling ultra-large container ships of 15,000 TEU capacity and above, and an
annual throughput capacity of 4.1 million TEUs.
“We are very proud to be a part of Mexico’s growth, and look
forward to creating a new world-class port facility which will reduce logistics
costs and improve Mexico’s global competitiveness,” APM Terminals Vice
President for Business Implementation, Tiemen Meester, who participated in the
ceremony, said.
