PTP achieves highest productivity level
Schednet News
THE Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), one of the fastest growing ports in Southeast Asia, achieved its highest average weekly productivity level of 24.2 gross moves per hour last month.
Since January this year, PTP has increased its productivity each month, and with the surge in volume late last year, PTP has focussed on increasing its labour force, which has doubled over the last six months to approximately 900. Subsequent increases in capacity were also vital where PTP brought forward the delivery of super post-panamax quay cranes and yard gantry cranes.
By January this year, with the bulk of Maersk Sealand services already shifted to PTP, the focus moved towards having an integrated IT system network that ensured the seamless transfer of data between port operating systems, shipping lines and other port users.
Productivity then increased month-to-month from 20 moves per hour in January 2001 to 23 moves per hour in March/April 2001, and 24 to 25 moves per hour currently. PTP's productivity on mother vessels itself averages 26 to 27 gross moves per hour. The overall average figure takes into account all vessels including barges and feeders.
The rise in productivity goes hand-in-hand with a monthly rise in throughput, which stood at 187,098 TEU in May this year. This represents a 17 per cent increase from April's throughput of 160,529 TEU and a 30-fold increase when compared with handling around 6,000 TEU in May last year.
From January 2001 until May 2001, the port's throughput stood at a total of 734,022 TEU. PTP has set a target throughput of 2 million TEU this year.