SCT announced on Tuesday 15 August 2006 its plan to open a fifth berth to handle containers at the Port of Southampton. The new berth will feature a dedicated 100-tonne mobile harbour crane and can be operated on a 24-hour, 7 days a week basis.
Berth 203, which is adjacent to the current four deep-water berths at SCT, will be able to accommodate feeder vessels of up to 150 m long. This new facility, due to be commissioned at the start of October, will enable SCT to maximise the use of the deep-water berths for deep-sea vessels as well as allowing greater operational flexibility for handling feeder vessels.
Commenting on the new development, Patrick Walters, Managing Director, SCT, said:
“The most notable improvement in using the additional berth is that we can provide a berth on arrival for feeder vessels and offer the level of service they need to run their operations efficiently and to schedule. The days of conflicting priorities between mother vessel and feeder vessel will be over.
It is our goal to attract feeder operators back to Southampton and thus increase the number of coastal services linking Southampton with the UK’s east and west coasts, Ireland and continental Europe."
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