In addition to accommodate larger ships, wharf extension will attract new investors and provide an essential platform for the Indian Ocean. Therefore, the depth of the water will be 16.5 meters to better accommodate vessels larger tonnage. Currently, the MCT can only accommodate large ships carrying 5,000 containers. But the extension of the MCT accouterments allows two ships 8,000 containers of a sudden.
To date, there has actually ship with 8,000 containers coming into the country but it is the other ships must take the containers because they can not dock the dock, supported someone close to this. At the end of the ongoing work, the port will also be more viable transhipment operations. This should strengthen the position of Port Louis as a 'hub' in the region through greater connectivity with other ports, allowing suddenly increased revenues on port dues.
For this work, the Mauritius Ports Authority (MPA) has injected about Rs 4.6 billion. The extension of the Mauritius Container Terminal (MCT) is a means to enable Port-Louis to become the most competitive and efficient port in the region of the Indian Ocean, and to attract new operators.
To date, the port is 21 operations per hour. The waiting time of a ship was reduced to three hours before then, ships remained for more than 48 hours in port before unloading their goods. In one year, the Cargo Handling Corporation (CHC) embarked and landed some 400,000 containers, but this figure may rise to 550,000. The Cargo Handling Corporation intends to examine the possibility of increasing the volume to 750,000 containers. It has five porticoes and each can handle up to 100,000 containers per year.