Saltmarsh Terminals for Tarrow Shipping

Eighteen hours keeps GX2 on its dates.

Your Gulf Express rotation runs five ports in 35 days. One berth decides how the other four go.

Port AmbroseDay 020 h alongside
Saltmarsh PointDay 318 h guaranteed
VellmoreDay 522 h alongside
Cabo LindoDay 1126 h alongside
KingsreachDay 1930 h alongside
Port AmbroseDay 35Loop closes

GX2 calls the Gulf every Tuesday. When a ship leaves a Gulf berth late, the loop doesn't wait for it. The master makes the time back at sea at a higher speed, and Tarrow pays for those hours in fuel all the way to Kingsreach.

Last year that happened on most calls. We'd like to make it the exception, and put money behind it when it isn't.

GX2 at your current Gulf terminal, 2025 average23 h 40 m

Saltmarsh plan for every GX2 call17 h 20 m

5 h 40 mlost on an average GX2 Gulf call in 2025

$14,000in catch-up fuel for every hour a GX2 ship leaves late

$4.1Mspent last year making Gulf hours back at sea

One call, box by box.

Tarrow Arden, 8,500 TEU, 2,400 moves. Berth 3, Tuesday 06:00 to Wednesday 00:00.

Drag the clock. Six cranes take off the boxes bound for Saltmarsh and load your exports while the yard fills and empties underneath. Then break a crane and watch the plan hold.

Six cranes working.

Import block A0 of 1,200 boxes in

Export block E1,200 waiting

Tue 11:305 h 30 m since first line

0of 2,400 moves done

6cranes working now

150moves an hour across the berth

0imports landed in block A

18 h 00 muntil the window closes

23:20planned sail, 40 minutes inside

Each box on the drawing is ten containersCargo staying on board for VellmoreCrane down

Tuesday 06:00 is held for GX2.

A fixed window on berth 3, every week for seven years.

GX2 window, Tuesday 06:00 to midnightArrival allowance, three hours either sideOther lines

Arrive within three hours either side of 06:00 and your eighteen hours start when the first line is fast. Finish late and every started hour comes back to Tarrow as a $9,000 credit on the next invoice.

Nobody files a claim. The berth log does the arithmetic and both of our teams see the same log.

49 of 52 guaranteed calls inside the window in 2025.

Inside the windowOver, by 40 m, 1 h 50 m and 3 h 20 m

Those three calls paid back $63,000 in credits. That record is for another Gulf liner on a guaranteed window, and it's in the data room with every berth log.

Your imports clear the yard in five days.

Block A for GX2 imports, block E for exports, 220 reefer plugs on block R.

86 percentof GX2 imports leave inside 5 free days, before any storage charge.

Free dwell is how long a box can sit in our yard before storage starts. We plotted how long GX2 imports sat at your current terminal in 2025, then set the free days you choose in pricing against it.

18 hexport cut-off before arrival, so your planners load the night before

40 minaverage truck turn at our gate, appointment to exit

220reefer plugs on block R, monitored every 15 minutes

Four people sign this. Each gets an answer.

Written for the question each of you would ask us across the table.

TRWU 204117 345G1 · Network

Will Saltmarsh hold the GX2 schedule?

Ingrid, Head of Network

Yes, and the contract makes it our problem when we don't. Tuesday 06:00 on berth 3 is yours for seven years. Arrive inside three hours either side and the eighteen-hour clock starts at first line.

If a ship runs later than that, we still work it with six cranes and give you a new window inside 24 hours. Every quarter we sit down with your network team, call by call, with the berth log open.

00:0003:0006:0009:0012:00

Arrive anywhere in the blue and the guarantee stands. The orange line is your window opening.

TRWU 204118 945G1 · Finance

What does a move cost, and who pays when you're late?

Marcus, Chief Financial Officer

$73.26 a move, all in, fixed for three years and capped at 3 percent a year after that. When we run over, the $9,000 an hour comes back automatically on the next invoice.

The window guarantee costs $18,000 a call. It pays for itself once it saves 1 hour 20 minutes of catch-up steaming. GX2 lost 5 hours 40 on an average Gulf call last year.

$73.26per move, every line included

$9,000credit per started hour over the window

1 h 20 msaved per call covers the guarantee

TRWU 204119 445G1 · Marine

Is berth 3 ready for an 8,500 TEU ship at 03:00 in fog?

Captain Tomasz, Port Captain

Berth 3 was dredged in 2024 for ships larger than anything on GX2. Here's what's standing by when Arden comes in at night.

14.8 m alongside at lowest astronomical tide. Arden draws 13.2 m loaded.
Two 60-tonne tugs booked by us for every GX2 arrival.
Radar-guided berthing down to 500 m visibility, agreed with the pilots.
Crane split plan to your ship planner 24 hours out, final at 12 hours.
A lashing gang of twelve aboard within 15 minutes of all fast.

TRWU 204120 045G1 · Sustainability

How much do our ships burn alongside?

Noor, Head of Sustainability

About 25 MWh of auxiliary engine power on every call today. From mid-2028 berth 3 has a 6.6 kV shore power connection, so a fitted ship switches its engines off at first line.

Our berth 3 power contract is 70 percent renewable. That nets out at about 15 tonnes of CO2 avoided per call, roughly 490 tonnes a year with the five GX2 ships already fitted.

Engines alongside25 MWh

On shore power0 MWh

Price it the way you'd run it.

Seven years, 364 calls, 873,600 moves. Turn any line off and the total and the trade-off update together.

Base

Terminal handling

Stevedoring, yard, gate and the EDI link to your operations centre. 873,600 moves at $56.00 plus $1,246,400 to set up.

Same in every version of this contract.

$50,168,000seven years

Berth window guarantee

$18,000 a call across 364 calls.

$6,552,000seven years

Sixth crane on every call

$9,500 a call across 364 calls.

$3,458,000seven years

Days

Free dwell days

Three days are in the base. $130,000 a year for each day above three.

5 days

$1,820,000seven years

Shore power on berth 3

$5,500 a call across 364 calls. Calls by ships without a connection are credited back.

$2,002,000seven years

Signature to first guaranteed call in 20 weeks.

Then seven years of Tuesdays.

20 Nov 2026Sign
Tuesday 06:00 on berth 3 is held for GX2 from that day.
Dec 2026Systems
EDI, berth planning and stowage links tested with your operations centre.
Jan 2027Marine trials
Captain Tomasz walks berth 3 with our harbour master. Mooring plan and fog procedure signed off.
Feb 2027First call
Six shadow calls measured against the window, with no credits either way while both teams learn the ships.
Apr 2027Guarantee live
Eighteen hours, automatic credits and quarterly reviews start.
Mid 2028Shore power
Berth 3 connection live. Fitted ships switch off at first line.
Feb 2034Term ends
364 calls. Renewal talks open in year six.

The terms, in plain words.

Price

Rates are fixed for the first three years. From 2030 they move with the Gulf port cost index, capped at 3 percent a year in either direction.

The guarantee

Arrive within three hours of Tuesday 06:00 and we finish inside eighteen hours of first line. Every started hour over is a $9,000 credit on the next invoice, without a claim.

Weather

When wind over 45 knots stops the cranes, the clock pauses for the stoppage and restarts when they move. Both teams read the same anemometer log.

Volume

Priced on 52 calls a year. There's no minimum volume charge. If GX2 changes size, per-move and per-call rates stay where they are.

Damage

Saltmarsh carries cargo handling liability up to $5M per incident. Joint damage surveys happen inside 24 hours of discharge.

Leaving

Either side can end the contract after year three with six months' notice. Invoices are monthly in arrears, payable in 30 days.

What we don't know yet.

Does GX2 stay on Tuesday in the 2027 rotation?
The window is built on it. If the loop moves to Wednesday we can hold berth 3 from 14:00, and no earlier.
Which three ships get shore power connections, and when?
We've priced every call and credit back calls by unfitted ships. A retrofit date for each would let us plan the switchgear load.
How many reefers will GX2 bring?
We planned for 9 percent, about 216 a call. Above 14 percent we add plugs on block R at our cost, with ten weeks' notice.
What happens in the 2029 labour talks?
Our dockworkers' agreement renews in 2029. The 3 percent cap holds whatever it says. You should hear about it from us first.

Reply by 20 November and Tuesday 06:00 is yours.

We're holding berth 3 for GX2 until then. After that the window goes back into the 2027 berth plan.

Ask Dana a question

Thank you. Dana will send the contract and the 2027 berth 3 schedule to Ingrid and Marcus by Monday, and Tuesday 06:00 comes off the open market today.

Dana, Commercial DirectorSaltmarsh Terminals, Saltmarsh Point

+1 409 555 0148Direct, and on the berth any Tuesday

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