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The terminals of the main ports hub of the world must be ready to receive new ULCV from 22.000 teu
Ross (APM Terminals): now it is the moment to prepare itself
March 21, 2012
The terminalisti of the first ports hub of the world must be prepared to receive to their docks the Hooligan new Container Vessels (ULCV) of the cargo ability of 22.000 teu and the crane producers must be ready to supply for time to the terminals means of raising in a position to operating on these portacontainer giant.
Halfdan Ross has asserted, managing director of the Crane division & Engineering Services of APM Terminals, the terminalista society of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, participating to conference TOC Container Supply Chain Asia 2012 that has held last week to Hong Kong.
"Even if still they are not ordered any - Ross has explained - are carried to term studies on the feasibility of the construction of portacontainer of the ability to 22.000 teu; therefore the planning of crane and other infrastructures of support in order to receive such containerized ships and their volumes is an absolutely necessary exercise for any main port hub".
"There are - it has evidenced - problems of structural rigidity, weight, visibility and cargo of the wind that must be taken to all in consideration for crane of these dimensions and also the issue if to update the current equipments or if to install from zero new cranes".
The manager of APM Terminals has remembered that on 1° February they were the 153 portacontenitori ships in order of the ability to beyond 10.000 teu, included the 20 ships of 18.000 teu of the class "ordered Triple" from Maersk Line, company that takes part of the Danish shipowning group, that the next year will take in delivery the first unit ( on 27 June 2011). Moreover they are currently in service 121 ships of the ability at least 10,000 teu.
"The point is - it has concluded Ross - than the ships hooligan-large is already in service and that they will follow ships still larger. Therefore now it is the moment to prepare the terminals and necessary infrastructures of dock".
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The terminalisti of the first ports hub of the world must be prepared to receive to their docks the Hooligan new Container Vessels (ULCV) of the cargo ability of 22.000 teu and the crane producers must be ready to supply for time to the terminals means of raising in a position to operating on these portacontainer giant.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
