The Port of Tanjung Pelepas on May 11 set a new productivity record of 340 gross berth moves per hour, beating its previous high mark of 336 gross berth moves set in 2001.
 
In a statement, PTP (schedules) said the new record was set during operations on the Maersk Sealand vessel AP Moller. It said a total of 4,316 moves were recorded during the operations beginning shortly after the vessel arrived from Algeciras, Spain at 9:17pm local time on Monday.
 
It said eight super post-panamax cranes were used during the operations that took less than 13 hours. The vessel departed the port at 10 a.m. on May 11.
 
PTP said the new record was a 12.6 percent improvement from its previous record of 302 gross berth moves during operations on the vessel Skagen Maersk on Feb 16 this year.