Terminal de Contenidors de Barcelona (TCB) ordered two Post Panamax Ship-to-Shore (STS) Container Cranes from Konecranes VLC. The value of the order is approximately EURO 11 million. The cranes are of the new BoxHunter design. Delivery is due in March 2003.
The container terminal in Barcelona is part of a growing international container terminal operator group, TCB Group. TCB Group’s main operations are located in Barcelona, Havana, Paranaguá and Tenerife. Of these, Barcelona and Paranaguá are old Konecranes customers.
These cranes adapt the new Konecranes’ BoxHunter Ship-to-Shore container crane design. In the new design the handling equipment comes complete with Konecranes own AC drives, Active Anti Sway Control and Horizontal Fine Positioning Systems. Together these features have a productivity boosting effect for the customer. The new BoxHunter STS cranes will enable the crane operator to reduce the non-productive part of the cycle time. The same technology has already succesfully been implemented in over 100 Konecranes’ RTG cranes.
During the last five years, Konecranes VLC has succesfully renewed the design of its main container handling equipment. Konecranes’ new STS crane and Konecranes’ RTG crane compose the most productive container handling equipment available on the market. Another novel efficient design is the Konecranes AGD bulk unloader. All products are supported by KCI Konecranes’ world wide harbour crane maintenance organisation, KCI Koneports.
“In this market with turbulence KCI Konecranes’ strength lies in its high capacity product range. Also this order, received after the tragic events of September 11, was won on technology”, says Mikko Uhari, Managing Director, Konecranes VLC Corporation, the harbour and shipyard crane subsidiary. “This order further supports a high operating level throughout 2002 stretching into 2003”.
Konecranes VLC is part of the KCI Konecranes Group’s Special Cranes Business Area and specialises in port, terminal and shipyard cranes.
KCI Konecranes, headquartered in Hyvinkää, Finland is a world leading Engineering Group specialising in advanced overhead lifting solutions and maintenance services. Group activity is organised along three business areas: Maintenance Services (44% of Group sales) Standard Lifting Equipment (32%) and Special Cranes (24%). KCI Konecranes is competing in all parts of the industrial and harbour crane market. In 2000, Group sales totalled EUR 703 million with well over 4400 employees in 34 countries all over the world.
This press release together with a downloadable high-resolution picture of a Ship-to-Shore crane is available at our website: www.kcigroup.com at “Latest News”.
For further information, please contact:
Konecranes VLC Corporation
Ilpo Hakala, Director, Container Handling,
tel. +358-20 427 2660
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The ship-to-shore (STS) crane
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