EQUIPMENT NEWS Peel Ports has invested in two new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at the Port of Liverpool to support new ships being introduced by specialist carrier Atlantic Container Line (ACL), and also to handle anticipated growth from intra-European feeder services. The new cranes offer increased height and reach capabilities and are for the port’s Terminal 1. By utilising high tensile steel and a lattice boom and beam construction process, the new Liebherr units allow lighter crane operations with reduced wheel loads – needed due to the narrow span and quay structure at the facility. Andy Abbott, CEO, ACL, explains the rationale for the new cranes. “Liverpool has been Atlantic Container Line’s home port in the UK for 54 years. The port has seen four generations of ships make calls twice a week, as technology changed, and transatlantic cargo volumes grew. ACL’s current generation of
STS FOR LIVERPOOL Container/RORO vessel is twice as large as its predecessor but uses the same footprint in order to fit through the lock at Royal Seaforth. To carry all the extra cargo, the new ships are
considerably higher, so high, state-of-the-art gantry cranes are essential in order to productively handle them.” The new cranes are expected to be operational at the start of 2022.
8 ShibataFenderTeam has delivered six sets of SPC 1100 Cone Fender Systems with a closed steel panel design measuring 2150 x 2150 mm and one SPC Double Cone Fender System consisting of two single systems for bulk terminal operations at Puerto Cortés, on the Caribbean coast, in northern Honduras. It is the first berth in Honduras built by using prefabricated construction items to support the preservation of the marine ecosystem
BRIEFS New Taylor Power Industrial lift trucks specialist, Taylor Machine Works, Inc. and zeroemission electric transit vehicles experts, Prottera, have announced a new collaboration for electric container handlers with high battery technology. The next-generation Taylor ZLC Series electric container handler will be powered with 904-kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy and the ZH Series electric forklift with 225-kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy using Proterra’s battery technology. Delivery of the first unit Is scheduled for 2022 with the two companies continuing their collaboration to help ports and other customers electrify equipment.
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