Konecranes UK has won acontract to supply a 90t Goliath crane to Nordic Terminal at Immingham, in north east England.
The dockside Goliath crane will have a 20m span carrying two 60t Konecranes LV open winches on a common trolley frame, specially designed to lift cassettes with steel coils with a total weight up to 90t. The two 60t hoists allow for the weight of a special handling device, eccentric loading and they have partial rotation for line up and the ability to trim the load keeping it level. A specially designed cassette lifter with telescopic movement for width, load and position sensing is included in the supply where it also has legs that will swing up for storage when not being used for lifting cassettes of steel from rail cars.
Load summation between the winches will be a built-in feature along with magnet and coil tong controls that will enable the crane to work with components from other cranes already operational on the site. It will also be suitable for normal lifting duties from special lifting points on an adapter frame at hook level which will be able to be equipped with a container spreader beam and a full plate handling magnet beam in the future.
The Goliath crane will feature Konecranes’ DynAHoist inverter technology with ESR (extended speed range), DynAC travel and traverse, plus Remox radio control and data logging.
The $1m order is due for delivery in November.
