Malta Freeport Terminals, the private operator of Malta freeport, carried out a record number of moves on the huge container ship CMA CGM’s Erving. It also achieved the highest number of container moves over two days.

This 13,000 TEU vessel, with an overall length of 366m, a beam of 48.2m and a gross tonnage of 141,649 was berthed on the newly‐extended Terminal Two North Quay. Six quayside cranes handled 6,101 containers, 297 unloaded from the ship and 5,804 loaded, representing the highest volume of moves ever handled on a single vessel at the Freeport.

The company said the operation was mainly focused on the loading of empty
containers destined to Far Eastern ports. The same containers will then be filled with export material from China back to the Mediterranean and North Europe.

The CMA CGM Erving calls regularly as part of the MEX1/AE11 service operated jointly by CMA CGM, (the third largest shipping line in the world) and Maersk (The largest shipping line in the world).

The vessel’s previous port of call was Fos‐Sur‐Le Mar France. After operations at Malta Freeport it proceeded towards the Far East.

Simultaneously, to CMA CGM Erving, the freeport also handled another two large container vessels, the Maersk Edison with over 3,000 container moves and Maersk Savannah also with over 3,000 container moves.

This meant that a record number of moves were handled at Malta Freeport over a span of two days.

Alex Montebello, Director Operations commented “The operations carried out on three large mainline vessels simultaneously, with such unprecedented number of container moves, confirm Malta Freeport’s status of a mega hub in the Mediterranean.”