The port, controlled by Hong Kong's Modern Terminals, expects to see its annual throughput reach 1m teus this year. According to the South China Morning Post, the company says it has already started talk with the Shenzhen government and Yantian Port on a phase-two terminal that would add four berths of at least 3.5m teu capacity to the Shenzhen west port cluster before 2020.
Terminal One has a capacity of 5.5m teu and so far has been operating at just one-fifth of capacity. However throughput has more than doubled to 742,000 teus during the first three quarters while its rival Shenzhen ports of Yantian, Chiwan and Shekou saw flat or negative growth over the same period.
The growth is mainly attributed to the acquisition of several transpacific and intra-Asia routes by the Grand Alliance and Orient Overseas Container Line. One route could easily bring you several tens of thousands of teu," Terminal One chief executive Benjamin Lai was quoted as saying, adding that some of the routes now calling Hong Kong may also have the potential to shift to Da Chan Bay.
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