Busan tackles the traffic

Busan’s newest automated terminal features AGVs produced in a partnership between VDL and Hyundai Rotem.

The ongoing expansion project is anticipated to extend until approximately 2040-2050, and the estimated cost upon completion is to reach US$32 billion.

Korea’s leading port is the launch customer for the port of Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte Distribution Park West

Busan Port Authority is “confident of reaching 20M TEU throughput in 2016” and has announced an international business development initiative

Busan Port Authority (BPA) has announced that the four terminal operators at Busan North Port signed an agreement on 4 December 2015 to form an “integrated operator for Busan North Port, starting in July 2016”.

Busan is consolidating container handling in its New Port area in a bid to become a “global transhipment hub port”.