Hutchison Ports Thailand has signed a contract to build the second phase of Terminal D (location) at Laem Chabang, inaugurated in 2019. This will increase the quay line from 1,000 to 1,700 metres and lift capacity to 3.5 million TEU. At the end of the second phase, the number of StS gantry cranes will have increased from six to seventeen and the number of RTGs to forty-three. The work will take three years.