Uniport opens new Rotterdam base

Uniport Multipurpose Terminals, a Kuehne & Nagel subsidiary, has increased its capacity sixfold with the opening of a new terminal in Rotterdam.

Uniport has moved from its old complex at Merwehaven to a 200,000-square-metre site at Waalhaven, in the port area nearest the city centre.

The new complex, opened this week, brings the firm's capacity to 350,000 teus (20 ft equivalent units) annually.

Wouter Boer, managing director of Kuehne & Nagel, said the move enabled the company to handle up to 10 per cent of total containers at Rotterdam harbour.

Rotterdam - the fourth busiest container port in the world - handled 4.78 million teus last year.

Mr Boer said Uniport's former complex, which it had operated since 1985, had reached capacity after three years.