Hamad Port’s cargo handling soars with start of Container Terminal 2 14 Jan 2021 - 8:54 Irfan Bukhari | The Peninsula Within days after inauguration of its initial operations, Container Terminal 2 (CT2) at Hamad Port has started receiving container ships. Yesterday both Container Terminal 1 and Container Terminal 2 received two vessels each and this new development will increase cargo handling capacity of Hamad Port. “QTerminals welcomed four vessels at CT1 and CT2 at Hamad Port. A full house! The discharging and loading of the containers was carried out safely, efficiently and effectively, as always,” QTerminals announced in a tweet. The first ship had arrived at CT2 of Hamad Port in August last year which was loaded with the first shipment of the rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs) for vertical container transportation.