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Eurogate Tanger upgrades four cranes of dock
Store clerk to the Kalmar
August 20, 2019
Eurogate Tanger, the society that manages a container terminal in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med, has commissioned to the Kalmar of the Cargotec group the increment of the ability to four own cranes ship-to-Shore that are produced by Chinese ZPMC. The height of means of raising will be elevated of 11 meters and the arms of the cranes will be lengthened of six meters. The participations of potenziamento will be started in the first trimester of the next year and will be carried to term in according to trimester of 2021.
"With this investment, that he is most important by when is started the activity in 2008 - it has emphasized the managing director of the terminalista society, Andrea Cervia - from the second half of the next year Eurogate Tanger is ready to receive the Large Hooligan Ships Container of last generation of the ability to 23.000 teu being able to work on container disposed on 25 lines. In this way we look to the future, since we intend to confirm and to widen our role of head physician hub of transhipment in the Mediterranean, allowing to continue to offer a service us of excellence to our customers".
Eurogate Tanger is participated to 20% from the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), to 30% from the Terminal Link of the shipowning group CMA CGM and to 50% from TangerMedGate (in its turn participated from the terminalisti groups Eurogate and Contship Italy, both with quotas 40%, and from the same Terminal Link with 20%). Last year the container Moroccan terminal has enlivened a containerized trade pairs almost 1,4 million teu, with a bending of the -0,5% on 2017. Currently the annual ability to traffic of the terminal is of about 1,6 million teu.
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