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Eurogate Container Wilhelmshaven Terminal receives the first four cranes ship-to-Shore
They are able to operate on disposed ships with 25 container shooting vertical on the bridge
March 6, 2012
This morning in the German port of Wilhelmshaven the ship Zhenhua 23 of the Chinese Shanghai Zhenua Port Machinery Co has reached. (ZPMC) with on board four destined cranes ship-to-Shore to the container terminal of the Eurogate Container Wilhelmshaven Terminal of the Eurogate group. Draft of the first cranes of dock of the 16 of this type of which the new terminal will be equipped. They are average of the ability to raising of 120 tons with a sbraccio of 69 meters that are able to operate on disposed ships with 25 container shooting vertical on the bridge.
"Currently - it has remembered the managing director of the German terminalista society, Marcel Egger - larger the portacontenitori ships of the world of the cargo ability of 15.550 teu have on bridge 22 pull vertical of container, while all other the megaone, included the ships from 18.000 teu in order, have 23 container shooting on the bridge. Vice versa our cranes are able to operate on container disposed until 25 shooting on the bridge and therefore they are adapted to operate on ships that are not still on the market. Thanks to this investment our terminal will be able to hold the step with the future developments of the dimension of the ships".
The first thousand linear meters of dock of the Eurogate Container Wilhelmshaven Terminal, equipped of eight produced cranes ship-to-Shore from the ZPMC, will enter in service the next August.
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