Evyap Port, located on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, Turkey, has purchased eight fully-electric rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTG) , due to be delivered in March 2013. These will be Konecranes’ […]
Two new gantry cranes have been delivered to DP World Sokhna, Egypt’s commercial gateway between Cairo and the Red Sea, to boost productivity at the port’s container handling operations. The two s[…]
Work on a new terminal at the Port of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico is underway, with its operator looking to acquire a number of electric rubber tyred gantry and ship-to-shore cranes. Plans to develop a ne[…]
Leasing contracts for seven new cranes have been approved by Russia’s largest commercial port operator Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port Group. Two 124t Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour cranes for con[…]
Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS) received a new USD 9M quay crane and a new rubber tyred gantry crane last week. Local media announced that the purchase is part of the compan[…]
Liebherr has commissioned its eighth ship-to-shore container crane to be sold to the Exolgan Container Terminal in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as part of the facility’s continuing expansion. With an ou[…]
DP World has signed agreements with two port crane manufacturers to purchase 19 ship-to-shore quay cranes and 50 rail-mounted gantry cranes for its Terminal 3 development at Jebel Ali Port, Dubai. Loc[…]
DP World has ordered 14 Kalmar automatic stacking cranes and 14 Kalmar one-over-one shuttle carriers for the Port of Brisbane in Australia. Cargotec aims to fulfill the order with deliveries in 2013 a[…]
A 110.5M berth extension plan for Visakhapatnam Port Trust’s Visakha Container Terminal is expected to include buying two Super Post-Panamax quay cranes and four RTGs from Konecranes. According to T[…]
A crane malfunction has caused a 27t container of avocados to fall 7m from a container crane on to a ship loading at the Port of Tauranga, New Zealand, local news reported. The incident saw a supporti[…]
Port workers at the UK’s Port of Felixstowe set a new record for the speed of loading and unloading a ship, with the port claiming that a container was handled almost every minute. The port set […]