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HHLA orders to ZPMC three new super cranes ultra post-Panamax for the container terminal CTB of the port of Amburgo
They will be able to operate on portacontainer of the ability to 20.000 teu
June 3, 2015
The German group Hafen Hamburger a Logistik AG (HHLA) has ordered to Chinese ZPMC the supply of three new cranes super ship-to-Shore ultra post-Panamax, in a position to operating on portacontenitori ships of the ability to 20.000 teu. The three cranes of dock will be installed in the Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) of the port of Amburgo. The new means, that they will have an ability to raising of 110 tons, will be able to at the same time to enliven two container from 40 feet or four from twenty feet.
"The number of ships ultra large that our terminals of Amburgo climb - has explained the managing director of HHLA, Stefan Behn - it is in continuous increase. The new cranes offer to ulterior ability and flexibility to us, allowing us to continue to enliven ships with the high level of productivity to which our customers are accustomed. The purchase of the cranes in the long term takes part of our program face to the adaptation to the dimension of the ships and the increase of the productivity. Meanwhile - it has emphasized Behn - with the adoption of a series of measures we make sure a coordination of the more efficient traffic is in dock that in the hinterland".
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