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CARGO HANDLING NEWS
Paceco Corp offers a
Twin-40 buffer station
Paceco Corp has designed a buffer station for the latest container cranes that
are equipped to handle two 40/45ft containers simultaneously. So far as is known,
Paceco Corp has not itself built any
Portainers equipped with a twin hoist system for 40/45fts, as supplied by ZPMC
to Jebel Ali and Qingdao Qianwan. However, a Portainer built by daughter company Paceco España for Maersk in
Italgru goes
to Rouen
Italgru Srl has logged its first export orders for harbour mobile cranes since the
company was acquired from bankruptcy
(Italgru SpA) and rebuilt by Bonfanti
Group several years ago. Three type GS
650P models, with a hook lift of 40t-8m
and 17t at max. outreach of 34m (FEM
A3 classification), have been ordered by
Rouen port authority. “The French order is a new landmark for us,” said Italgru’s
sales director Fabrizio Bonfanti.
Last year Italgru sold a total of six
cranes in the home Italian market.Three
GS 1100Ps (63t-10m/27.2t-63m under
FEM A3) went to Ecologica SpA in
Bríndisi, Nadep Srl and Italterminal Srl,
both in Ravenna; two GS 650s went to
Nadep again and a GS 600P (max 36t,
max. outreach 30m) went to Multiservice
Srl in Chioggia.
This year a total of eight cranes have
been ordered. In addition to the Rouen
orders, two GS 1100s are going to Ravenna, this time to Docks Cereali SpA
and IFA Srl, a GS 820P (max. 40t, max
outreach of 30m) has been ordered by
IPC Stevedor ing Company Srl in
Cagliari, a GS 600P to CP Manfredonia
and a GS 650P is going to Italterminal in
Ravenna.
Bonfanti explains that there are now
11 Italgru harbour mobile cranes in Ravenna, Italy’s leading general cargo and
dry bulk port, compared to just one at
the end of 2002. Italgru is the leading
marque in the port, with the cranes performing a wide range of hook and grab
duties.
As can be seen, Italgru offers a number
of competitive designs at the small and
medium end of the spectrum, but it also
introduced the big GS 2400P (120t-12m/
18t-49m) a couple of years ago.
The offshore and industrial sides of
Italgru’s business are also going well, with
various orders from Saipem in connection with an oil rig off the Congo, for
the Ilva steelworks in Táranto and steel
firms in Lombardy.
Since 2003 Italgru has been building
cranes at Ambivere, located halfway between Bergamo and the former Italgru
SpA plant in Lecco.The latter facility has
been taken over by steel processing firms.
Italgru Srl still has its commercial offices
there but these will transfer to Ambivere
at the end of this year.
Italgru GS 1100P model in operation with
Nadep in Ravenna
Algeciras was the original test crane for
Bromma’s first “Tandem” spreader, starting in 2001.
A growing number of operators is
examining the use of cranes with heavier
SWLs to take not only two 40fts at the
same time but perhaps also four 20fts,
using two twin 20 spreaders. Leaving aside
major unresolved issues for the ship-crane
interface, especially for accessing the cells,
there are also issues for the crane-yard
interface, particularly if the crane does not
ground the containers but the terminal
uses tractor/trailer sets (IMVs). Like as not
the IMVs will not be correctly aligned
and the driver will find it all but impossible to “spot” the containers.
The Twin-40 Buffer Station concept
addresses this. It builds on the earlier buffer
station devised by Paceco Corp for its
Supertainer crane.Theoretical capacity of
this crane, equipped with two hoists and
a horizontal traverser to cover the truck
lanes, is 85 containers/hour. The buffer
concept is similarly based on a portal
structure mounted on rubber tyres and
towed by the crane as it long travels.
The platform is sufficiently wide to
accommodate two 40fts side by side together with an independent, platformmounted hoist that (un)loads the IMVs
underneath. Rated load is 50 LT and the
theoretical 2 x 40ft cycle, says Paceco
Corp, is 108 secs.
www.gottwald.com
The New Generation 5 –
Carrara Knows Why
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With the new Crane Generation 5 from
Gottwald Port Technology, port handling
is advancing in impressive dimensions.
In the Port of Carrara, Italy, for example.
Recently, two G HMK 8710 cranes were
put into operation. With a lifting capacity
of 200 tonnes, they are the largest Mobile
Harbour Cranes in the world. Naturally
with diesel-electric drive. Customised
for professional handling of marble,
containers and heavy loads. An example
of customer-oriented, efficient solutions.
An example taken from the many different
variants of the new Generation 5 from
Gottwald. For terminals of every size, for
all ship sizes and for all types of handling.
Gottwald Port Technology GmbH • Postfach 18 03 43 • 40570 Düsseldorf, Germany
Phone: +49 211 7102-0 • Fax: +49 211 7102-651 • e-mail: [email protected] • www.gottwald.com
Porto di Carrara SPA • Viale da Verrazzano • Varco Portuale di Levante • 54036 Carrara (MS), Italy
Phone: +39 0585 7844 30 • Fax: +39 0585 7844 13 • www.portodicarrara.it
Generation 5 – You Name it, We Crane it
May 2006
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