At the Leixões Container Terminal, the year of 2012 started as 2011 ended: in style.
January was the best January ever at CL, having exceeded the figures of last year, which had already been exceptional. In this way, 44,462 TEU were handled, 1% more than a year ago. Considering the number of containers, the growth was still more significant – it reached 2.4%, totalizing 28,786 moves.
The activity growth did not jeopardize the productivity indexes of TCL. On the start of the new year, the ship’s net productivity reached 36 movements/hour.
At the level of the best international practices.
In January, beyond the (several) ships, TCL received 20,700 trucks (which were there for discharging/loading containers). Eight minutes (eight!) was the mean time of reception for each truck. With that, each truck was in average just 35 minutes inside the port perimeter.