Engineered Material Handling (EMH) has extended its Nomad its free-standing crane range with the addition of a double-girder version. The company said the double-girder overhead cranes are “durable [...]
Digitalisation in hoist technology has brought us such things as antisway mechanisms, load monitoring, automatic speed control, and zone control. But as Julian Champkin reports, that is just the start[...]
Port operator Asian Terminals is expanding its capacity at the Manila South Harbour to over one million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) to meet increasing container volumes at the Port of Manila. Asia[...]
Bolloré Group has ordered nine rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes for the Meridian Port Services Container Terminal in Tema, Ghana and Benin Container Terminal in Cotonou, Benin. Konecranes will supply[...]
The crane market in Oceania has been going through hard times. But Julian Champkin finds an air of anticipation and a refusal to give in. It is almost two years since anyone last produced a car in Aus[...]
Liebherr has expanded its share of the rubber-tyred gantry crane (RTG) market, with deliveries to Polish, Egyptian, Irish and Russian ports, while shipping 15 mobile harbour cranes to Latin America th[...]
Three 16-wheel rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes, purchased in January by port operator Luka Koper for the Slovenian Port of Koper, have been delivered. The three Konecranes RTG cranes are the first 16[...]
Implementing technology can increase the capacity and efficiency of a port – for example, through optimising loading or unloading cargo operations and reducing the number of workers needed to manage[...]
Northport (Malaysia), the operators of Malaysia’s main maritime gateway Port Klang, are planning to boost the port’s current capacity by a further 600,000 TEUs, local news has reported. Port Klang[...]
Associated British Ports has awarded a GBP 26M contract for four megamax ship-to-shore container cranes to Liebherr Container Cranes. The cranes will be operational in 2014 and will be able to work th[...]