Port Everglades commissions new super size cranes

Community leaders have joined the workforce at Broward County’s Port Everglades in Florida to commission three new Super Post-Panamax gantry cranes, marked with a recent live-streamed ribbon cutting ceremony.  The new cranes are the largest of their kind in the world at 175ft and valued at $13.8m each. Each crane has the ability to handle […]

29/03/2021 - 12:48 pm

Port of Oakland invests in tallest cranes to handle massive ships 

Towering new cranes are on their way to the Port of Oakland to handle the massive ships calling at the seaport. These new cranes will be the tallest ever at Oakland, and rank among the largest in the US. Stevedoring Services of America (SSA) is investing in the three giant cranes for its marine terminal at Oakland (Oakland International […]

28/12/2020 - 09:01 am

RSGT crane investment of $35million as terminal expansion continues

Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT) has taken delivery of two state-of-the-art remote-controlled ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, and 10 hybrid-rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs), as part of the latest steps in the planned expansion of Jeddah Port’s premier facility to double annual container throughput capacity to 5.2 million TEUs by 2023. RSGT CEO Jens Floe said, “This is […]

17/11/2020 - 08:07 am

Giant Crane reaches Ashdod Port

The Ashdod Port Company has taken delivery of what is believed to be the largest crane in use in any Israeli port. The crane cost about €9.5 million and Ashdod has the option to purchase a further nine similar cranes. ​ The new crane made by ZPMC was manufactured in Shanghai and is arriving on a […]

25/07/2019 - 18:28 pm

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