Cargo Operations: Los Angeles

 

APM Terminals Pier 400 in the Port of Los Angeles established what the terminal operator claims is a "single vessel cargo operations" record.  That occurred during the October 19 call of the 13,600 TEU capacity Maersk Evora with the loading and discharging of 24,846 TEUs during a 128-hour period. The previous record, 18,500 TEUs, was set during the call of a similarly-sized vessel at the Port of Rotterdam in 2015.

Maersk Evora is deployed in Europe-the Far East/Transpacific AE6/TP6 service operated by 2M partners Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company via the expanded Panama Canal.

Said APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles Managing Director Steven Trombley: "This achievement highlights how Pier 400 can easily handle the large cargo volumes our liner customers generate to maximize their network utilization and our landside customers expect in their port partner. Our team ensured the cranes, container yard, on-dock rail and truck gate all worked in a well-executed plan to deliver these results for our customers’ supply chains."

 

APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles was the first container terminal in North America to receive a vessel of 18,000 TEU capacity   the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin on December 26, 2015.  In that case, 11,200 containers were handled during 56 hours of port operations.

 

APM Terminals, a subsidiary of the Danish shipping conglomerate A.P. Møller, operates a global network of 76 port and terminal facilities from its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, and is a long-time tenant of the Port of Los Angeles.  Maersk Line is also an A.P. Møller subsidiary.