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100% electric portside "feels like another world"
With ports feeling the pressure to make a measurable impact on their emissions, Konecranes Ecolifting™ retrofit products offer eco-friendly solutions for the future by transforming crane handling into clean and efficient operations.
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Ports have a lot of ground to cover when it comes to reducing their environmental impact. Often situated close to densely populated cities, finding ways to reduce the high volumes of noise and air pollution caused by busy cranes is a high priority for many Konecranes customers.
Konecranes Ecolifting™ retrofit products help ports significantly improve their environmental carbon footprint, offering a combination of ecological and economic benefits! The mobile harbor crane (MHC) cable reel retrofit converts diesel dependent cranes into energy efficient, 100% electric cranes, resulting in lower fuel consumption, less maintenance, lower noise levels and fewer carbon emissions.
This technology can be applied to almost all Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbor cranes with a diesel genset.
“A port where the mobile harbor crane cable reel retrofit has been installed, transforming the portside into a 100% electrified terminal, feels like another world - one where you only hear the noise of rope shifts and motors operating as the crane moves,” notes Ingo Schmuland, Product Manager for Konecranes.
With the MHC cable reel retrofit, the operation produces less noise and reduces carbon and nitrogen dioxide emissions, creating a positive footprint for Konecranes customers by reducing emissions in their daily material handling process. The impact of exposure to hazardous emissions on crane operators and service crew close to the operating area, is also significantly lower.
This retrofit increases reliability and productivity, has longer service intervals and, as a result, reduces downtimes by at least 25%, as there is no longer any need to spend time refueling with diesel or maintaining the diesel engine. This enables the MHC cable reel retrofit to spend more time loading or shifting containers.
With reduced annual running costs of the retrofit, one can expect a higher profitability over the long term for the mobile harbor crane retrofit solution. In fact, Konecrane customers can expect a minimum of 26% energy savings once the retrofit is complete.
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