Al Terminal Ravenna Container is inaugurated the commissioning of two new great cranes of dock



Today in the port of Ravenna great cranes of dock to the Terminal are inaugurated the commissioning of two new Container Ravenna (TCR) to completion of a program of modernization of the value of beyond eight million euros begun to March 2012. To the ceremony the city institutions have participated to the representatives of all beginning from the mayor of Ravenna, Fabrizio Matteucci, from the president of the Harbour Authority, Galliano Di Marco, and from the Emilia Romagna Region with councilman Miro Fiammenghi.

Up to now the terminal could work to the maximum portacontainer of the ability to 2.800-3.000 teu, while the new means of raising will be able to operate on ships of new generation of the ability until 8.000 teu. TCR has emphasized that the investment program is completed after only 13 months of yard without some impact negative on the operativity of the terminal whose enlivened in 2013 has grown of +8%. The technical project is developed by OMG-MGM and Control Techniques (Emerson Group), in tightened coordination with the technical direction of TCR.

The new cranes have a sbraccio that it arrives to 17 rows of container, a height under spreader of 34,5 meters and an ability to raising upgraded to 55 tons. On both the means are mounted the new driver's cabs devised from Brieda Cabins, equipped of the Dynamic Control Station, a device in a position to considerably improving the ergonomic conditions of guide of the crane operators of the port. New technological solutions at last afford an energy saving pairs to 30% with better performances and minors consumption.

"The today's day - Luisa Babini has declared, president of Terminal Contaner Ravenna - inaugurates a new cycle for TCR that looks to the future with ambition and determination. In attended that the work of dredging by the Harbour Authority is completed, the terminal is prepared to accommodate more and more large ships. We have a team of people whom she wants to grow and to improve more always and Sapir shareholders and Contship Italy continues to support the development plan of the terminal with the purchase of three new means RMG (Rail Mounted Grantry cranes) for the large square whose order is currently in phase of definition for an investment estimated in beyond 10 million euros".

"Now - it has emphasized Matteo Casadio, president of Sapir - TCR can at the market offer produced various from all others competitor in the Adriatic. Ravenna is for example already today an excellence for all the ortofrutticoli produced ones exchanged between Europe and the Mediterranean oriental. The organization of the terminal us affords in fact an attention and a cure of the only produced one, to which an effective system of partnership with customs and all comes abreast the involved operators. We are then adapting with important investments all ours equipment for being ready for the new terminal that will have deeper backdrops and longer docks".

"With today - it has observed Cecilia Eckelmann Battistello, president of Contship Italy - we begin to recover a development delay that would have risked to penalize Ravenna irrimediabilmente. The lines customers of the terminal can finally count on a greater flexibility of service, determining factor seen the current conditions of weakness of the marine hires. There are however signs of resumption to general level and for this we must all run in order to throw again the positioning of Ravenna in the Adriatic being given concreteness to the realization of the new terminal".