Two model LHM 250 Liebherr harbour cranes manufactured at the company’s Sunderland Works in the UK have been shipped to the Port of Bejaia in Algeria, where the assembly process started last week.
The cranes are part of an order of three units for the Algerian port. The third machine was built at the Liebherr headquarters in Nenzing, Austria. At the end of July, the Nenzing machine went by road transport to Antwerp, where it was loaded on to a sea-going vessel, which already had the two Sunderland machines on board.
The cranes have a lifting capacity of 64t, and a maximum outreach of 38m. They are expected to remain in Bejaia where they will be used to handle bulk cargo, containers, and general cargo.
The three cranes, which were ordered in November 2004, took around seven months to manufacture. Liebherr expects to hand them over by the end of September.
To aid transportation, the cranes were not shipped in their entirety, and it will take another month or so to assemble the machines from smaller parts. Not until then will they be officially handed over.
In another project, a Liebherr type LHM 400 harbour mobile crane has been delivered to Sea Terminal Sassnitz, a new company set up by Hamburg-based port logistics company BUSS Ports + Logistics Group on Germany’s Baltic island of Rügen.
The crane, which has a four-rope configuration, is equipped with a motor grab control system. According to Liebherr, it is a multi-purpose machine, “which offers outstanding flexibility in break bulk cargo and container handling”.
