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    Dock Facilities at Port Pepard .: Report By: Ayan

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    Port Pepard is a major regional port on the southeastern coast that was developed to handle exports of small, economical cars. It has over 1,000 meters of quay that can accommodate large ships and offers rail infrastructure for container, bulk, and break-bulk cargo. Port Pepard is well-connected by road and rail to the country's interior and has competitive rail freight rates thanks to a joint venture with the national railways. It is operated by one of the world's largest terminal operators and has facilities for vehicle storage and loading containers for export.

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    Port Pepard is a major regional port on the southeastern coast that was developed to handle exports of small, economical cars. It has over 1,000 meters of quay that can accommodate large ships and offers rail infrastructure for container, bulk, and break-bulk cargo. Port Pepard is well-connected by road and rail to the country's interior and has competitive rail freight rates thanks to a joint venture with the national railways. It is operated by one of the world's largest terminal operators and has facilities for vehicle storage and loading containers for export.

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    Port Pepard is a major regional port on the southeastern coast that was developed to handle exports of small, economical cars. It has over 1,000 meters of quay that can accommodate large ships and offers rail infrastructure for container, bulk, and break-bulk cargo. Port Pepard is well-connected by road and rail to the country's interior and has competitive rail freight rates thanks to a joint venture with the national railways. It is operated by one of the world's largest terminal operators and has facilities for vehicle storage and loading containers for export.

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    Dock Facilities at Port Pepard


    Report by: Ayan.
    A Major regional port Port Pepard offers a total quay length of 1,075m and
    accepts vessels up to 14.5 metre draft. There is an on-
    dock rail facility with dedicated sidings to handle
    containers, bulk and break-bulk cargo. It also offers
    extensive back – up infrastructure, including
    warehousing facilities, open stack yards, weigh bridges
    The Northwest region of the country has a long coast
    and dedicated rail sidings.
    line of over two thousand kilometres and has existing
    ports in over forty locations. Many of these traditional
    Excellent Connectivity
    harbours are unsuited to the large container ships or
    bulk carriers of today. New sites have been found for Port Pepard is well connected by road and rail to the rest
    developing several new anchorages suited to the of the country. It is directly connected by the broad
    massive ships required by today’s transport needs. One gauge rail network of the National Railways. Port
    such port is Pepard on the seaway on the south eastern Pepard has set up a joint venture with the National
    coast of this region. This port has been developed Railways – Pepard Rail Corporation Limited, making it
    specifically to handle the export of our new range of possible to offer the most competitive rail freight and
    cars built to meet national and world demands for small, transit times in the western coast. The hinterland
    economical and environmentally friendly family capabilities have also been augmented with new
    transport. scheduled services being provided to our new
    manufacturing plant
    Development

    Port Pepard has built an 11 km long four-lane


    Port Pepard, a successful public – private enterprise, is
    expressway connecting the port to the National
    emerging as an important gateway port on the West
    Highway.  The Government has undertaken a project to
    Coast for containers, bulk and liquid cargo. With less
    construct a central spine road, extending up to Port
    than ten hours steaming time from the region’s largest
    Pepard.
    city, Port Pepard provides excellent access to the main
    trade lines in the North Western region. Its handling Port Pepard has the most competitive rail freight rates
    facilities are developed to manage the efficient transport coupled with excellent transit times as compared to
    of our cars. other gateway ports on the West Coast. Port Pepard is
    now connected to its hinterland by the broad gauge rail
    Port Pepard is operated by one of the largest container
    network of the National Railways and is now connected
    terminal operators in the world. APM Terminals has
    by rail to all the major Inland container depots in the
    operations spread over more than 50 terminals in 31
    North West. The broad gauge rail connectivity project
    countries, on five continents. With a 54% stake, APM
    has been undertaken by Pepard Rail Corporation
    Terminals is the largest shareholder in Port Pepard.
    Limited (PRCL) promoted by Pepard Port Limited and
    the Ministry of Railways. Port Pepard has an equity
    The Waterfront

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    stake of 38.8% in PRCL. The Port can handle incoming transport that is easily afforded by families of modest
    and outgoing trains simultaneously and the current incomes.
    capacity of the rail link is 22 trains per day. At present,
    the port is handling on an average 2 trains per day.

    Port Pepard is the first port in this country to receive Car exports

    double stacked container trains (March 2006), which


    We have come through some difficult years for
    have a capacity of carrying 180TEUs as against 90TEUs
    manufacturing and show here how our planned exports
    carried in a single stack train. At present, the double
    of cars were actually met through the recent years of
    stack container trains run to the inland railhead.
    world economic downturn. It will be seen that we came

    Oceanographic Conditions through that and are meeting export targets again as
    world trade has picked up.

    Port Pepard is protected by two islands, which act as a


    natural breakwater making the port safe in all weather Cars exported through Port Pepard
    conditions. The presence of these islands also leads to
    the tranquillity of the water in the harbour. It also
    ensures the wave height is less than 0.5m most of the Year 2007 2008 2009 2010
    time. Port Pepard has now increased the draft to 14.5 Planned 43000 5000 5000 55500
    metres from 12.5 metres. The water currents are 0 0
    between 2.5 to 3 knots during peak tidal conditions.
    Actual 45500 3950 4550 56000
    0 0

    These favourable oceanographic conditions at Port


    Pepard ensure easy and safe navigation of ships round
    the year. Thanks to the twin islands, Port Pepard can
    offer its services throughout the year, even during the
    monsoons, which provides an added advantage to its
    customers.

    Storage Developments

    One of the unique features of Port Pepard is the


    availability of large tracts of land. This is attractive to
    several customers who wish to set up tank farms or
    warehouse facilities on site. A car storage facility is built
    here to hold cars while awaiting shipping. Cars are
    brought in by rail and loaded into containers in a newly
    developed container storage facility. This was developed
    in preparation for the launch of the new Micro range of
    cars which we believe will meet world wide
    requirements for environmentally friendly personal

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