The most memorable development stages of the Muuga container terminal in the Port of Muuga. (1992 – 2007)
1. november 1992 | – | 1st November 1992 first agreements with Port of Tallinn were signed: lease and cooperation agreements; |
May 1993 | – | first, and as for today, the longest stevedore contract with the ESCO was signed |
12th and 13th of October 1993 | – | first two contracts were signed with companies SISU and Valmet on delivery of portal truck and reach-stacker |
March 1994 | – | portal truck and reach-stacker arrived at the terminal |
13th of October 1994 | – | new contract with SISU on delivery of additional handling equipment was signed |
17th of October 1994 | – | first container line were opened: Tallinn – Rotterdam, Muuga Line (the line was operating for one year) |
28th of June 1995 | – | first leading container-vessel of Muuga type of Estonian Shipping Company beginning its regular services at the terminal |
August 1995 | – | new quay Nr. 14 is in operation |
August 1995 | – | Viking Line began its services through the terminal (cooperative work during the next two and a half years) |
September 1995 | – | beginning of production complex construction |
July 1996 | – | delivery of the new production complex |
September 1997 | – | delivery of the second passport-control gate for handling of Ro-Ro vessels of Silja Line company (cooperative work during one year) |
4th of November 1997 | – | first call of the new Ro-Ro type vessel Lehola of Estonian Shipping Company |
20th of June 1998 | – | stevedore contract with the company OOCL was signed (in 1999 calls to the terminal has been suspended) |
1st of September 1998 | – | stevedore contract with the company UniFeeder was signed |
February 1999 | – | the contract on delivery of the mobile crane LHM-250 by Liebherr was signed |
30th of April 1999 | – | crane was delivered for assembly |
10th of May 1999 | – | the assembly was finished |
January - December 2000 | – | construction of the new quay Nr.16 (customer – Port of Tallinn Ltd) and storage area for containers (customer – Muuga CT Ltd). First stage of the construction of the new container terminal in the Port of Muuga had begun. |
January 2000 | – | stevedore contract between Ferry Terminal Ltd and Maersk was signed |
June 2000 | – | contract between Muuga CT and Kalmar on delivery new handling equipment was signed |
18th of September 2000 | – | new contract on delivery of the mobile crane LHM-400 was signed |
October – November 2000 | – | the storage area of the first stage of the container terminal was delivered |
December 2000 | – | the assembly of the new crane was finished and new quay Nr.16 was delivered. |
March 2001 | – | stevedore contracts with ESF and CGM companies were signed (the calls were temporary suspended in 2001) |
June 2001 | – | MSC had began the working through the terminal |
23 May 2001 | – | the official opening of the new container terminal |
August 2001 | – | Ro-Ro line Mann Lines switched-over to the port of Muuga and began the service through the terminal (cooperative work during the 15 months) |
December 2001 | – | legal and organisation formalities of integration of the Ferry Terminal Ltd and Muuga CT Ltd were completed |
Summer 2002 | – | increasing of the storage area for container storage by two additional hectares |
December 2002 | – | the record cargo turnover of the company. The terminal handled 1,62 mln tonnes of cargo, including more than 87,000 TEU of containers |
February 2003 | – | stevedore contract with Team Lines was signed |
17th of April 2003 | – | first call of the Alteland vessel of the Team Lines company |
7th of May 2003 | – | contract with Kone on delivery of the STS gantry crane was signed |
June 2003 | – | first stage of the construction of the covered warehouse had been started |
September 2003 | – | the construction of the warehouse was finished |
September 2003 | – | the calls to the terminal by the vessels of OOCL was renewed |
14 October 2003 | – | stevedore contract with Freselle company was signed |
28 October 2003 | – | company holds negotiations with CGM about the renewal of calls to the terminal |
06 February 2004 | – | Delivery of the new Ship-to-Shore (STS) gantry crane by Kone |
23 March 2004 | – | The Start-up of the first STS Gantry crane |
April 2– October 2004 | – | The building of mechanical workshop. |
16 July 2004 | – | Muuga CT handled 500 000th TEU |
December 2004 | – | The development program of Muuga CT for 2005-2015 was accepted by the shareholders and forwarded to the Port of Tallinn authorities; First time in the history of MCT it handled 100 000 TEU in one year. |
30 September 2005 | – | MSC Adriana with capacity 1 730 TEU was handled at MCT, it was the biggest vessel handled so far. |
10 May 2006 | – | Two first Shuttle-Carriers started to work |
May-June 2006 | – | Two first RTG cranes started to work on quay Nr.14 |
21 July 2006 | – | Second STS Gantry crane started to work |
21 August 2006 | – | The beginning of operation of new technological scheme RTG-SC |
28 June 2007 | – | Third RTG crane started operating |
3 August 2007 | – | Two additional Shuttle Carriers by Kalmar and personnel lift platform for maintenance of handling equipment were put in operation. |
23 August 2007 | – | Contract on delivering the first RMG crane was signed with Konecranes. |
October 2007 | – | The expansion of railway park had begun |
03 December 2007 | – | The 1 000 000th TEU was handled |