Today in the port of Gioia Tauro the last two of the 13 new quay cranes from the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), The company that manages the container terminal of the Calabrian airport. The 13 lifting equipment are part of the investments planned at the time of the acquisition in 2019 of the entire ownership of MCT by Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) of the MSC shipping group: the first new ship-to-shore cranes arrived in Gioia Tauro in November 2019 followed by others last February, by a further four at the beginning of the October and by the two today that completed the crane park of quay that now consists of 25 STS cranes and three mobile cranes.

The two new quay cranes, like those that arrived in port 9 October, will be able to serve large ships ocean also with a capacity of 25 thousand TEUs. They have a weight of 1,800 tonnes, a distance between the trolleys (binary spreads) of 30 meters, a lifting height under the spreader of 54 meters, a total lifting stroke of 75 meters and a height of total of 95 meters which reaches 141 meters with the arm raised, with lifting capacity under the spreader of 65 Tons.