This includes a recent order for 30 of its GL units with an order value of approximately ¨10 million, to be installed on 15 container ships. MacGREGOR has secured an order at Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard for the supply of its type GL-2 MacGREGOR deck cranes for 15 container ships being built for various owners. The cranes two on each vessel will be installed on thirteen 1,700 TEU and two 1,400 TEU container ships.
For the 1,700 TEU vessels, MacGREGOR will supply one of its GL4528/3237,2/2541,5-2 and one GL4528,8-2. And for the 1,400 TEU ships shipsets, one GL4030/3338,5/2641,3-2 and one GL4028/3628,8-2.
The vessels have been ordered by:
-Leonhardt & Blumberg Reederei GmbH & Co. KG 2 x 1,400 TEU
-Reederei Gebr. Winter GmbH & Co. KG 2 x 1,700 TEU
-Norwest Management Co Pte Ltd 3 x 1,700 TEU
-Schoeller Holdings 4 x 1,700 TEU
-Thien + Heyenga GmbH 2 x 1,700 TEU
-Bernhard Schulte GmbH & Co KG 2 x 1,700 TEU
From the Jiangxin shipyard, German owner Reederei Eugen Friedrich has ordered four multi-purpose vessels. MacGREGOR will equip each of the new ships with two GL 80-tonne and one GL 45-tonne lifting-capacity cranes. Delivery for the units is scheduled for the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009.
Orders for four shipsets of MacGREGOR type GLB3024.5-2/2424.5gr units have been received from the Shan Hai Guan shipyard in China for the Greek shipowner Navarone. Each vessel will be fitted with three cranes. An order for the same type of cranes has also been placed by the Jiangsu Eastern shipyard, calling for two shipsets of the GLB crane, with three units specified for each vessel.
From Carisbrooke Shipping, MacGREGOR has received an order for its GLB2526-2 cranes to be fitted to six vessels on order at Yangzijiang Shipyard. Each vessel will have two units.
The Nanjing Huatai yard is building six 7,600 dwt multipurpose vessels for German owner Hartmann Logistik, and each of the vessels will be fitted with two GL3626-2/2826gr cranes.
Each of the cranes on order will feature MacGREGOR s CC2000 control system, which provides excellent control of the cargo and can easily be adjusted, with a laptop computer, for different parameters such as speed and ramp times to optimise the cargo handling operation. All crane movements are smooth and fast, with stepless speed control.