Tuas Port opening: Higher efficiency, lower carbon footprint justify higher operational costs: companies

Singapore's plan for Tuas Port, a highly automated port with double the existing capacity, offers a strategy for easing global supply-chain congestion. - Bloomberg

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): "A shining example to the world that operates in near darkness at night" is how Jeremy Nixon, chief executive of global container shipping company Ocean Network Express (One), has described the new Tuas Port.

Unlike other port terminals, where bright lights illuminate container and shipyards at night, Tuas Port's yard areas have no mast lights.