Paper 4: Determining Container Terminal Capacity 4.1 An important and urgent government decision must be made on the size of terminal to be constructed. The commissioned study has proposed three sizes of terminal for consideration: System A (with one berthing point) would have a capacity of 100,000 containers a year, System B (two berthing points) 200,000 containers, and System C (three berthing points) 300,000 containers. Improving Port Performance 2 Policy Exercise 1 4 4.2 The independent consultants have estimated the operating performance and costs of these three systems, as summarised in Table 3.