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ALL WEATHER TERMINALSThe Waterland Terminal in the Port of Amsterdam is a state-of-the-art, multimodal, all-weather terminal for LoLo and RoRo shipments. The combination of facilities that the terminal offers is unique in Europe.extensive and innovative experience, enables VCK to offer customers highly efficient and competitive logistical solutions.storage of steel goods. It also offers storage facilities for materials including aluminium, zinc, steel, paper, wood and pulp. Facilities include a broad range of open storage options for RoRo goods and containersmaking the expansion a healthy and necessary step. “AWT 4 is a fitting sequel and innovation of a concept made possible through a partnership with the Port of Amsterdam. What we started as pioneers in Europe, resulted in a unique combination of facilities. By adding a fourth covered terminal, we prove to be the leading ‘all weather stevedoring’ specialist,” said Jeroen Brauns, Managing Director VCK Port Logistics. lThe terminal boasts three all-weather berths and two open docks (RoRo). Transhipment, storage and distribution operates 24/7. With its “one roof, all weather” concept, weather conditions have no impact on operations, speed or quality. The terminal includes a warehouse with a dehumidifier forThe motive behind the investment of approximately €11 million in the AWT concept follows the growth VCK Group foresees in the maritime logistics market, the company and its position in the stevedoring industry,ILOCATION: Port Marín, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain TERMINAL OPERATOR: Ceferino Nogueira, s.a. FURTHER INFORMATION: www.gruponogar.comt was thanks to private enterprise feature is a 35 m span bridge crane that the first AWT in southern with a lifting capacity of 40 tons.Europe was built in the Spanish Galician port of Marín.All goods that are sensitive to water can be handled at the AWT including packaged sawn timber and other wood-based products, iron and steel ingots and slabs, paper reels, palletised cargo, pulp bales, general cargo and project cargo.The Spanish AWT is a pioneering building that enables loading and off- loading operations to take place every day of the year, regardless of weather conditions. It is especially significant for cargoes that are sensitive to damp, such as paper pulp.The AWT is located close to the Spanish industrial city of Vigo on the Atlantic coast, in the heart of the country’s most productive areas, noted for shipbuilding and automobile manufacture.It was created by Grupo Nogueira s.a. a company with a long tradition in Spanish port logistics. It stands over a 22 m deep stretch of Atlantic water which can accommodate vessels with a beam of up to16.5 m and length of 89 m. It provides shelter for vessels with an overall length of 125 m with a constant draught of 7 m. The AWT’s mainIn addition to the AWT, Port Marín features a 107 m-long dock with a 5-6 m depth alongside specialising in ship repairs. There are also 10 docks dedicated to supporting the port’s local fishing fleet. l40PORT OF KOKKOLAVCK Group