Completion of three berths for Kamman Harbor this year

Pusan Regional Maritime Affairs and Fisheries is coming up with an alternative for increased container cargoes. As container cargoes have skyrocketed in the past five years (10.5 percent annually on average) through Pusan, they will reach 100 billion TEU around 2004, surpassing Pusan's capacity.

The Pusan regional MOMAF agency is scheduled to complete three berths under construction in the Kamman harbor, which are able to accommodate 50,000 ton vessels, within this year, and to dredge the HBCT (Hyundai Busan Container Terminal) front seas for next year's May launch. Dredging is scheduled to start this May. When the dredging is completed, berths will be deepened to 15 meters from their current 12.5 meters.

In addition, the Pusan East Container Terminal (PECT) container yard will be expanded by 39,000 pyoung, increasing on-dock processed cargoes. General wharves - quays 2, 3, 4 and the central quay - will receive a new 262,000 square meter container yard and four berths for 20,000 ton vessels with aid of government funds and private capital of 120.8 billion won.

The Yangsan Inland Container Depot (ICD), also, will be supplemented with four additional CFSs (Container Freight Station) this December, bringing the total up to five from its current single CFS. Off-Dock CYs nearby the port, which were originally planned for closing by March 2000, will remain until Pusan New Port operations begin, allowing the port to handle an additional 2 million containers over and above its normal annual capacity, as it has been doing.

In addition to the above, the Pusan agency will launch three of six berths at the Pusan New Port around December 2005, earlier than scheduled.