A strong focus on productivity has led SAGT to consistently overreach its annual capacity of one million container boxes—for three years starting 2010 the terminal handled 1.9 million container boxes, nearly twice its design capacity. It has since lost volume after a new deep water terminal began operations in 2014 to accommodate the larger vessels that shipping lines are increasingly deploying. In 2015, with traffic falling, SAGT handled 1.4 million container boxes, still significantly above capacity.

4th 

Productivity ranking among regional container terminals by US Journal of Commerce

34

Container moves per crane per hour in 2015 (Deep water terminal operator CICT did 30 moves; state-owned JCT managed 23)

127%

Capacity utilization in 2015 (JCT 55% and CICT 67%)

30

Maximum number of vessels SAGT can handle per week with a quay length of 940m (JCT’s quay length is 1,600m and CICT 1,200m)