Misrata Free Trade Zone celebrates port expansion

The launch of the new dock at Misrata Free Trade Zone 

(Photo: Taher Zaroog)

Misrata/Tripoli, 10 March 2014:
Misrata has celebrated the opening of a new dock in its Free Trade Zone which will boost the number of vessels that can berth at the port.
The new dock’s dimensions – 804 metres in length with a depth of 13 metres – enables the commercial port to now accommodate medium-sized cargo vessels. With the additional dock, up to 19 ships can berth at any one time.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new dock

 (Photo: Taher Zaroog)

  At the opening ceremony, a project establishing a new port and container terminal, some eight kilometres east of the port was announced. The new terminal, which will fall under the Misrata Free Trade Zone, will have berths 20 metres deep that can accommodate some of larger container vessels not currently able to call at any port in Libya.
  The proposed terminal could turn Misrata into a Mediterranean hub for containers in transit able to compete with Maltese and Italian ports. An area of 15 hectares has been set aside specifically for this purpose.
  The new port will be constructed on an area extending to 3,000 hectares. Shipping sources in Misrata said that more than 50 international companies have already expressed interest in setting up or investing in projects on the new site.
  Misrata Free Trade Zone is one of the country’s best-equipped ports for handling containers, boasting the only two gantry cranes in Libya. This has helped it become one of the country’s most successful ports and, in 2013, it reported handling a record number of containers.
Last year 208,339 twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) were unloaded at the port, compared to 159,634 in 2012.
  As the only independent Libyan port authority, Misrata is also not obliged to use the state handling company, the Libyan Ports Company (LPC). Staff at other Libya ports claim that LPC’s monopoly over stevedore and limited working hours cause long delays in the unloading of vessels.

Foundations for the new electronic gateway are unveiled (Photo: Taher Zaroog)

  As part of ongoing improvements to and modernization of the Misrata Free Trade Zone, yesterday’s ceremony also saw the unveiling of the foundation for the port’s new electronic gateway.
Work on the new dock was carried out by Turkish company TML.

Flight MH370

 Based on the sources of social sites, For the news about flight MH370.The flight MH 370 from Malaysia to the Beijing .Search crews involving nine countries are working “every hour, every minute, every second” across a huge swathe of the South China Sea but have yet to find any evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, the country’s civil aviation chief said on Monday. However ,Almost 60 hours after flight MH370 vanished from radar screens in the early hours of Saturday officials remain “puzzled” by its sudden disappearance and are considering all possible angles, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said.The Flight MH 370 have not found anything that appears to be an object from the aircraft. Addition , The Beijing-bound flight was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it went missing around 40 minutes after its 12.41am take-off from Kuala Lumpur, over the seas between Malaysia and Vietnam. The Boeing-777 was cruising at 35,000 feet when it disappeared in apparently good weather, gave no indication of any problems and did not issue a distress call.There are many theories that have been in the media; many experts around the world have contributed their expertise and knowledge about what could happen, what happened.To confirm what happened on that particular day on this ill-fated aircraft.
   Suddently, the government had not discounted speculation about a hijack, but was looking at every possible explanation, noting that it took two years to determine the cause of the 2009 Air France crash.That five passengers had checked in for the flight but not boarded, adding that their baggage was removed from the aircraft as necessary in such cases.

 In the case, The two suspects who boarded the flight on missing passports have been identified by officials and are said to be of “non-Asian” appearance.
For the conclusion , Flight MH370 Have China has dispatched more ships to the area, and sent officials to Kuala Lumpur.Pray for MH370.