The next few months are crucial for Amsterdam as Ceres Paragon negotiates with lines whose existing contracts are up for renewal. As previously reported in WorldCargo News, Ceres is offering money back guarantees if it does not hit 250 moves/ship hour on vessels making at least 2500 moves at the 440m x 50.5m indented dock. It believes it can actually hit 300 moves/hour!
Ceres president Chris Kritikos is confident that the "bottom line" results of saving 15-20 hours per ship call will prove irresistible and was upbeat with representatives of leading lines such as Cosco, Evergreen, Hanjin, Hapag-Lloyd, CP Ships, MOL, MISC, NYK, P&ON, Safmarine, OOCL, HMM and Yang Ming who toured the terminal last month....
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Approx 1000 words from WorldCargo News, September 2001,
page 33.
