KCI Konecranes won two major contracts to up-grade altogether 8 Panamax Ship-to-Shore cranes in the Port of Felixstowe (UK) and at Patrick Stevedores terminals in Sydney and Melbourne (Australia) and a contract from Amco Birtley (UK) to relocate two Continuous Ship Unloaders (CSU’s). The orders were received in late June and have an aggregate value of approx. EUR 5 million.
Port of Felixstowe, part of the global leading terminal operator Hutchison, ordered the raising of four Morris ship-to-shore cranes. The contract was awarded to Konecranes (UK) Ltd. who will co-operate with Germany-based Noell Konecranes on this project. Noell Konecranes, part of KCI Koneports - the Group’s harbour crane maintenance organisation - will use their own lifting tower set to raise the cranes by 3 m. The project is due for completion at the end of December 2003.
Port operator Patrick Stevedores in Australia placed an order to raise two Deer-Park and two Vickers-Hoskins-Paceco Ship-to-Shore cranes by 6 m each at the harbours of Sydney and Melbourne. Konecranes Pty Ltd. from Australia and Noell Konecranes will execute this project together using a second set of lifting towers. The project will be completed in mid March 2004.
“This is a breakthrough for our concept and our own lifting tower solution“, states Gerhard Mickeleit, Manager, Crane Modernisation Projects of Noell Konecranes. “This is the first time we have been awarded two similar orders of this magnitude at the same time“.
In both projects the co-operation between local KCI companies and KCI Koneports constituted the most economical and technically the best solution for the customers. “A significant element in winning these orders was Noell Konecranes’ proven design expertise and experience of a wide variety of different crane makes. Applying state of the art in-house structural analysis combined with knowledge of the cranes operating in practise is key in this kind of projects”, said Dirk Groth, Marketing Manager of Noell Konecranes. “Furthermore the companies can rely on the solid knowledge of crane manufacturing from the Group’s Ship-to-Shore crane design team”.
The third contract was received from AMCO Birtley for the relocation and modernisation of two existing KONE CSU’s at the Innogy power generation plant in Tilbury, UK. Noell Konecranes and Koneports Scandinavia will co-operate on this project. Both CSU’s will be moved over a distance of 30 m onto a new jetty using Noell Konecranes’ FLUIDTS heavy lift transportation system. Additionally, new intermediate conveyor belts will be installed on the cranes to feed the existing belt conveyor system on the old jetty and some repairs will be executed on the hydraulic systems of the cranes.
Further information can be obtained from
Noell Konecranes GmbH
Dirk Groth, Manager Marketing & Sales Support
Tel. +49 511 7704 418
KCI Koneports, the Group’s harbour crane maintenance organisation, specialises worldwide in preventive maintenance and other services for all makes and brands of port and harbour cranes.
KCI Konecranes, headquartered in Hyvinkää, Finland is a world leading Engineering Group specialising in advanced overhead lifting solutions and maintenance services. The Group has annual sales of approximately EUR 714 million with 4400 employees in 34 countries all over the world.
