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New means of raising for the container terminal of from Liguria ports of Genoa and Savona I go
First four cranes for portacontainer from 20.000 teu to the genoese VTE. To Vado Ligure 19 straddle carrier hybrid for APM Terminals
March 1, 2016
Yesterday in the port of Genoa four new cranes of dock have reached destined the European Voltri Terminal (VTE). The new ship-to-Shore means, that they take part of a store clerk for eight unit of emitted type gooseneck regarding Chinese ZPMC ( on 15 June 2015), they are able to operate on portacontainer of the ability until 20.000 teu and will be used beginning from the next spring in substitution of crane of smaller abilities. The other four new cranes, they also with sbraccio of 70 meters and rise height under the spreader of 50 meters, will be taken in delivery in the end of this year. To end 2016, therefore, terminal VTE will have of a total of 12 cranes of dock, of which eight in a position to operating on the ships of greater present ability on the market.
While terminalista society APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has ordered to the Kalmar Finn the supply of 19 hybrid cranes to knight that will be employed in the new container terminal under construction in from Liguria port of Savona Go that it will become operating at the beginning of 2018 and will be managed by the Dutch society. APM Terminals has emphasized that of Vado Ligure will be the first terminal to the endowed world of a fleet of straddle carrier hybrid equipped of an advanced system of regeneration of the energy that will allow - the managing director of APM Terminals Vado has explained, Carlo Merli, "a previewed reduction of 30% of the fuel consumption let alone a reduction estimated in 50 tons of co2 per year for every means regarding conventional straddle carrier the diesel engine-electrical workers".
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