Terminal de Contenedores de Algeciras (TCA) of Spain has ordered two Post Panamax ship-to-shore container cranes from Konecranes VLC.
The order is the third large order for Konecranes’ new BoxHunter ship-to-shore (STS) container crane design since its release in September. The value of the order is approximately Euro 11m. The two previous BoxHunter orders were for two similar cranes to the TCB container terminal in Barcelona, Spain, and a modernisation project for two STS cranes adapting the new design.
“The crane market is not so hot today,” said Mika Mahlberg, director of Konecranes VLC Container Cranes. “However, this order together with the other recent orders prove that there is still a good market for high performance equipment. Once again this order was won on technology and the productivity boosting features of Konecranes’ new BoxHunter STS crane design. The order will further support a good base loading within Special Cranes stretching into 2003.” The new container terminal in Algeciras is part of a joint venture between the terminal operator TCB and Acciona, a Spanish infrastructure construction and services company. When complete the new container terminal in Algeciras plans to have capacity of 856,000 TEU. The two new STS cranes are part of the investments required for increasing capacity at the terminal. In the new BoxHunter design the handling equipment comes with Konecranes own AC drives, Active Anti Sway Control and Horizontal Fine Positioning Systems.
According to Konecranes, the new BoxHunter STS cranes will enable the crane operator to reduce the non-productive part of the cycle time.
The cranes are supported by KCI Konecranes’ harbour crane maintenance organisation, KCI Koneports.
