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Verrà the height of three cranes of dock of the Terminal de Contenitors de Barcelona
the intense activities will be carried out by the Kalmar
May 28, 2014
the Kalmar of the Finnish group Cargotec will increase of six meters the height of three cranes of dock of the terminal for containers to the Muelle South of the port of Barcelona that is managed by the Terminal de Contenitors de Barcelona (TCB) of Grup TCB. The intense activities will be started the next July and will be completed within the end of this year.
the height under the spreader of the three cranes ship-to-Shore, that they have an ability to raising until 2.000 tons, will be capacity to 47 meters with the objective to put them in a position to operating on the portacontainer of greater dimension that will arrive in future in the Catalan port. "With the arrival of larger ships - it has explained in charge of the equipments of TCB, Gonzalo Serrano - he is for we indispensable to find a solution effective in order to increase the ability to handling of our cranes STS and to maintain the greater volume of traffic of the container". Serrano has emphasized that the participation of increase of the cranes will be not only carried out adopting the most innovative ingegneristiche solutions, but will be realized shortly time containing lessened the interruptions of the activity of the terminal.
Currently terminal TCB has a annual ability to traffic pairs to 2,3 million teu.
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