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Container piers at Taipei port to be inaugurated
2009/3/10
Two container piers at the Port of Taipei will be formally inaugurated this week, which will upgrade the port in the Taipei suburb of Danshui to an international seaport, the second largest in the country behind Kaohsiung Harbour, CNA reported.
The two container piers were among seven that were scheduled to be built by 2014 under an 11-year build-operate-transfer (BOT) project developed in 2003 by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) in cooperation with three local maritime companies.
By 2014, when all seven container piers at the Taipei Port are completed and become operational, the container handling capacity of the Port of Taipei is expected to reach four million TEUs annually.
The Port of Taipei, a man-made seaport built on reclaimed land, lies south of the Danshui River estuary in northern Taiwan and faces west toward the Taiwan Strait. It is spread over 3,102 hectares of marine area, almost five times the size of the Keelung Harbour, which is 34 nautical miles east of Danshui.
The Port of Taipei was formerly designed as an auxiliary port of Keelung Harbour, which handled only coastal shipping operations because of its limited facilities and capacity.
However, it is now positioned to become a major seaport in northern Taiwan to handle ocean-going shipping operations and direct cross-Taiwan Strait shipping services that were officially launched December 15, 2008.
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