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Thanks to the innovated systems of control from remote ABB a consisting quota makes sure of the market of cranes STS
In the 2012 group it has received three orders for 41 cranes of three harbour terminals
June 3, 2013
The breaking in on the main world-wide marine routes of portacontainer of large-capacity now induces the little harbour terminals in a position to receiving these ships to equip itself of the most recent technological innovations for being able to enliven quickly large quantitative of containers and imposes to the other ports that aim to being climbed from these portacontenitori to upgrade own docks equipping them with means of handling of last generation.
Currently the portacontenitori of greater ability to the world-wide fleet is CMA CGM Marco Polo, before the series of new ships of the French shipowning group CMA CGM of the ability to 16.000 teu that it has commissioning at the end last year ( of 8 November 2013). But already from the next month shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk will introduce on the Asia-Europe route before own series of twenty new portacontainer from 18.000 teu called "Triple" (Economy of scales, Energy efficiency, Environmetally improved), that it will be taken in delivery on 28 June. Triple, of 165.000 gross capacities in tons, will be long 400 meters, wide 49 meters and high 73 meters.
The necessity to upgrade the harbour infrastructures and equipments in order to serve these mega-ships constitutes a market in fast expansion that is provoking the interest of the producers of harbour cranes and systems of control of handling of cargos. Between these Helvetic group ABB, that own presence in harbour field has recently widened acquiring American society APS Group Technology that realizes solutions for the field ( on 12 February 2013). One of the new technologies developed from ABB for this market is that of the control from remote of the harbour cranes ship-to-Shore, that it has the objective to increase the productivity and meanwhile to offer to the crane operators an atmosphere of more ergonomic and comfortable job.
ABB has explained that the new portacontainer Triple will demand from five to seven of highest world-wide cranes STS for the activities of cargo and drainage of the ships to full ability, cranes that will have to be able to raise a container to 52 meters of height over the dock and until 20 meters under the dock, for a total rise height of 72 meters. For an operator sat in a small cabin of the crane, far from the ground and the containers - it has found the Swiss group - it almost turns out impossible let alone physically challenging to operate the crane with speed and precision. The new system developed from ABB affords to the operators to at a distance maneuver the crane from a control room purposely planned, that it can be situated in any part of the harbour terminal, thanks to the last technologies of ABB in the field of the automation applied to the cranes.
First crane STS maneuvered with developed control from remote from ABB has entered in function to the Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) of Panama hat in December 2010. Last year ABB has received three orders for the supply of systems of remote control from of the cranes for two terminal of the new harbour area Maasvlakte 2 of Rotterdam and for the new container terminals T3 of Jebel Ali to Dubay. Draft altogether of 41 cranes with control from remote whose production will begin the next year. Group ABB, that it will introduce the solutions of automation for the container terminal - included the cranes with control from remote - to next fair TOC Container Supply Chani Exhibition and Conference Europe that will hold to Rotterdam from the 25 on 27 June next ones, has emphasized that these store clerks represent 20% of the entire market of the cranes ship-to-Shore in 2012.
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