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Al Container Terminal Burchardkai di Amburgo can land portacontainer from 18.000 teu
Inaugurated dock 5/6
August 26, 2014
The German group Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has announced of ready being to serve portacontainer of the ability to 18.000 teu to the Container Terminals Burchardkai (CTB) of the port of Amburgo. Yesterday, in fact, the dock 5/6 is inaugurated that is equipped of five cranes ship-to-Shore of the ZPMC that, with an arm of 74 meters, are planned in order to operate on container vessels with 24 lines of container. Moreover the cranes can work in modality twin lift attendant raising at the same time two container from 40 ' or four from 20 '.
With the 595 linear meters of new dock 5/6 the line of dock to terminal CTB is gone up to a total of 1.400 meters, that they are equipped with 15 cranes ship-to-Shore. "With new dock 5/6 - it has emphasized Stefan Behn, member of the board of directors of HHLA - we are able to manage the larger container vessels of the world in fast and efficient way. The increase of the handling ability helps us to manage the moments of peak determined from the increasing number of more and more large ships".
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