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28th April 202228th April 2022

Six fleet gantries delivered to Côte d’Ivoire Terminal

Côte d’Ivoire Terminal took delivery of six fleet gantries for the second container terminal currently under construction at the Port of Abidjan. Transported on a semi-submersible vessel specially designed to carry gantries, this delivery is part of an overall order of 13 fleet gantries. This 30-metre-high handling equipment will be used for the loading, unloading …

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10th March 202210th March 2022

Collett extracts 20 tonne gantry crane with Enerpac jacking system

Collett Heavy Lift Team relied on Enerpac JS125 jacking system to extract a 20 tonne gantry crane from its Halifax Mile Thorn warehouse. With the decision to upgrade to a higher capacity gantry, the old school Butler 15 Tonne capacity gantry crane needed to be removed from the facility. But, with limited clearance space above …

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8th February 20228th February 2022

15 new gantries for MPS

Meridian Port Services (MPS) has recently signed a purchase agreement with Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited (ZPMC) for the acquisition of 15 new gantry cranes, including 3 STS cranes and 12 eRTG cranes. This USD 53.31 million investment will enhance the capacity at Terminal 3 in the Port of Tema and also reflects MPS' …

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19th November 202119th November 2021

Liebherr to supply STS and RTGs to Oman

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. will supply STS and RTGs to the Port of Duqm. The order of four STS and twelve RTGs will be delivered to Oman in late 2022. The Port of Duqm development is a greenfield project and is part of the ambitious SEZAD project (Special Economic Zone of Authority at Duqm). The …

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13th July 202113th July 2021

AAL delivers gantry cranes to Port of Oslo

AAL Shipping delivered four of the largest rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) in the carrier’s history to the Port of Oslo (Oslo Havn KF), Norway. These new generation mobile units, measuring 36 m in height and 28 m in length, were transported from Taicang in China to Oslo on a single sailing aboard the 31,000 deadweight …

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18th December 202018th December 2020

ZPMC to supply six gantries for the deep-water port in Timor-Leste

Timor Port S.A., a subsidiary of Bolloré Ports has awarded ZPMC with the contract on the supply of two STS dockside gantries and four RTG yard gantries to equip the Tibar Bay deep-water port in Timor-Leste. The new cranes supplied by ZPMC will feature the latest technologies. They will notably include a leading- edge control …

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1st October 20201st October 2020

KONECRANES AND CARGOTEC TO MERGE CREATING A GLOBAL LEADER IN SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL FLOW

Konecranes Plc and Cargotec Corporation announce that their respective Boards of Directors have today signed a combination agreement and a merger plan to combine the two companies through a merger. Strategic, Commercial and Operational Benefits The proposed combination of Konecranes and Cargotec is complementary and value-creating from geographical; product and services offering; employee; customer; and …

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29th July 202029th July 2020

Kalmar Zero Emission RTGs for Turkey

Kalmar will supply two Zero Emission rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) to Safi Derince International Port in Turkey. The order also includes Kalmar SmartPort solutions that are part of the Kalmar One automation system. The Kalmar Zero Emission RTG features a 100-percent electric power system that produces no emissions or engine noise at source, and completely …

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16th July 202016th July 2020

Kuenz installs first cranes in Africa

In 2016, Kuenz won a contract with APM Terminals, a subsidiary of Maersk Group, to deliver 42 ASCs to a new automated terminal in the Port of Tanger, Morocco. Kuenz delivered all 42 cranes over the first two phases of the project from 2017-2019, with the terminal officially opening in June 2019. Today the cranes …

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25th June 202025th June 2020

Kuenz Cranes for terminal in Bavaria

German KT-Infrastrukturgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG is in the process of rebuilding the existing terminal in Wiener Straße in Regensburg and has relied on Kuenz GmbH’s know-how in the intermodal crane industry. The project scope consists of a trimodal container gantry crane, featuring a telescopic spreader and gripping tongs. As the largest freight transport and …

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