FEB
HIT awarded Green Medal at
the Hang Seng Pan Pearl River
Delta Environmental Awards
HIT was awarded a Green Medal at
the Hang Seng Pan Pearl River Delta
Environmental Awards in February
2015. The award recognises and
encourages sound environmental
practices by manufacturing
companies, including those in the
transportation and logistics sector.
The award ceremony was jointly
organised by the Federation of Hong
Kong Industries and Hang Seng Bank.
JAN
YICT achieved the
123,456,789th TEU milestone
On 28 January 2015, YICT reached the
auspicious milestone of handling its
123,456,789th TEU since operations
began in 1994. A celebration was
organised on-site to commemorate
the special achievement featuring the
unveiling of a model made out of the
nine digits.
Corporate
Milestones
JUN
YICT received four mega-
vessels simultaneously
On 19 June 2015, YICT received three
18,000-plus TEU mega-vessels and
one 11,000-plus TEU mega-vessel
simultaneously for the first time. The
three 18,000-plus TEU mega-vessels
were
CSCL Pacific Ocean
,
Mayview
Maersk
and
Marit Maersk
, all deployed
on the Asia-Europe service, and the
11,000-plus TEU mega-vessel was the
CMA CGM Cassiopeia
.
AUG
Delivery of electric rubber-
tyred gantry cranes (eRTGCs)
At the end of August 2015, HIT
received 12 new eRTGCs which
were subsequently deployed to
production. Similarly, YICT took
delivery of 22 1-over-6 eRTGCs
during the year which increase
both its yard stacking capacity and
container handling eciency.
APR
YICT won China Ports and Harbors Association awards
On 25 April 2015, the Container Branch of the China Ports and Harbors Association
presented YICT with five awards for its performance in 2014. The awards included:
• Container Terminal with Annual Throughput Exceeding Ten Million TEU
in China
• Container Terminal with Single Vessel Productivity Exceeding 100 Containers
per Hour in China
• Top 7 Container Terminals in terms of Total Container Volume by Intermodal
Services in China
• Container Terminal with Transshipment Throughput Exceeding 1.7 Million TEU
in China
• Container Terminal with International Transshipment Throughput Exceeding
1.4 Million TEU in China
OPTIMISING FOR THE FUTURE
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