26th September 2012

Customers at the Port of Felixstowe are benefitting from fast vessel turnarounds on the quayside as a result of a program of continuous improvements.

The port set a new record for the overall total of container moves per hour on the recent call of the Maersk Sarnia. A total of 3,527 moves were completed during the ship’s time in the port, with the overall total of 182 moves per hour achieved across the whole vessel. In recent months, the port has also set the record for the number of moves for a single Quayside Gantry Crane over 12 hours - 602, the equivalent of more than 50 moves per hour, and the record for the number of moves completed on a single vessel in a 12 hour shift – 2,233.

Clemence Cheng, Chief Executive Officer of Hutchison Ports (UK), which owns the Port of Felixstowe said:

“We have been working hard with all our stakeholders, including our customers, to raise the service level at Felixstowe and I am very pleased to see this continuous improvement. I would like to thank the excellent workforces responsible for making this phenomenal achievement possible. It is a reflection of the close collaboration between the port and its customers and a great deal of team work from everyone to make this happen."

"It is our commitment to our customers to continue to offer the best services available in the UK and to maintain our leadership position as the port of choice."

In the past 12 months the port has achieved an overall improvement of 24% in real operational moves per hour on deep sea vessels.

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Notes to Editors:

For further information, please contact Paul Davey, Head of Corporate Affairs, on Tel No: +44 (0)1394 602063, Fax No: +44 (0)1394 604943 or E-mail daveyps@hpuk.co.uk / www.portoffelixstowe.co.uk

Port of Felixstowe (PFL) is the largest container port in the UK, and one of the largest in Europe. PFL is a member of the Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Group. Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL), is the world’s leading port investor, developer and operator. The HPH network of port operations comprises 315 berths in 52 ports, spanning 26 countries throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Over the years, HPH has expanded internationally into other logistics, transportation-related and hotel businesses. These include cruise ship terminals, airport and hotel operations, distribution centres, rail services, and ship repair facilities. In 2010, the HPH port network handled a combined throughput of 75 million TEU worldwide.