A new container terminal has started operating in Zaporizhia, which connected the industrial center of Ukraine with the three largest ports of Odessa and allowed to accelerate logistics on this route 3-4 times thanks to KONECRANES equipment:
- pneumatic wheel loader (RTG) manufactured by KONECRANES, with a capacity of 40.6 t;
- two units of heavy container forklifts Reachstacker "KONECRANES", with a capacity of 45.0 t;
- loaders, with a loading capacity of 12,0-16,0 t.
The new hub was launched by United Global Logistics, the largest operator of multimodal transportation.
Terminal services and capabilities
The container hub "Terminal Zaporozhye" covers an area of 60 thousand square meters and at the same time is capable of accommodating 1400 TEU (equivalent to a 20 'container).
Processing capacity of the terminal:
- railway front - 150 containers per day;
- automobile front - 250 containers per day;
- availability of container vehicles carrying out regional transportation of containers and cargo.
The covered storage area is about 2000 square meters.
The hub infrastructure includes:
- railway front 900 m long, allowing to receive 42 railway platforms, that is, a container train;
- convenient access roads for road freight transport;
- own rolling stock;
- a customs complex, including a customs office and a hangar for inspecting containers;
- open bonded warehouse with a capacity of 500 TEU;
- warehouse areas for storage of containers, general and bulk cargo.
In the near future - arrangement of a warehouse with conditions for storing refrigerated containers.
Specialized handling equipment with lifting capacities from 1.5 to 45 tons, including forklift trucks, stackers and RTGs, as well as a conveyor loader designed for loading bulk and bulk cargo into containers. The above-mentioned transshipment equipment allows handling the entire range of cargo flows transshipped at the "Terminal Zaporozhye".