Cargo Handling Journey
Cargo handling journey
Through the widest and deepest offering in cargo handling and shipyards, we deliver excellent technology in a fair way to improve the safety, sustainability, and productivity of your operation. We bring our global knowledge to bear on your local needs, to maximize the efficiency of your operation with the lowest possible life-time cost of ownership.
Please select your cargo type you like to handle
Container
Containers are the commonly used, standardized transport boxes used to ship around 60% of all the world’s transported goods. Thanks to their unified sizes (20’ to 45’), heights and specifications (e.g. open top, tank and reefer) they enable a very efficient flow of goods. A seaside container terminal is a complex and expensive investment, although the job it will do is quite simple: bringing containers in and moving them out again. It must be designed very carefully, starting with your business goals and working your way up from there. Konecranes has the widest and deepest offering of container handling equipment and services for seaside and inland container handling operations. Below, please investigate what kind of equipment and services will best support you at your specific terminal.
General & project cargo
“General cargo” comprises many different kinds of cargo such as metal products – steel coils, slabs, ingots and plates – wood products, and much more. We offer high-performance handling equipment for handling general cargo of all types. “Project cargo” is special cargo that is very heavy or bulky, items such as large generators, windmill components, pipes and so on. Handling this kind of cargo requires special equipment, sometimes working in tandem. Please investigate below what kind of equipment and services will support you best.
Bulk material
Bulk material comprise different kinds of grainy material such as coal, sand, fertilizer, clinker, animal feed and more. To handle bulk material, we offer equipment that can handle all kinds of bulker ships with fast handling rates, for many kinds of terminals. These include import and export terminals, and ship-to-ship handling on rivers and even the open sea. Please investigate below what kind of equipment and services will support you best.
Quayside
At the quayside of your container terminal you have a choice of two crane concepts. They are designed for different quayside handling roles.
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Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes
STS cranes are made for high-performance container handling at the quayside in medium-sized and large container terminals. They are specialized cranes, designed to load and unload container ships at the highest possible speed for fast ship turn-around times.
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Mobile harbor cranes
Mobile harbor cranes are made for material handling of maximum flexibility in multi-purpose terminals dealing with containers, bulk materials, general cargo and/or project cargo. As their name says, they are mobile – moving around the terminal on rubber tires or rails.
For a solution geared to your specific quayside situation please contact our experts.
Horizontal transport
“Horizontal transport” is container handling equipment that moves containers between the quayside and the container yard. We offer different types of equipment to do this job.
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Reach stackers
Reach stackers are a special kind of heavy-duty lift truck that can pick containers up from the ground and transport them to a stacking area. They are general-purpose container handling machines, serving the quayside, road trucks and rail wagons as needed.
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Sprinter carriers
Sprinter carriers are straddle carriers designed for fast horizontal transport. They are shorter than conventional straddle carriers, stacking containers two-high. They are fast “sprinting” machines that can serve road trucks and rail wagons as well.
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Automated guided vehicles AGV
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are driverless, automated, low-slung machines that are specialized for horizontal transport between the quayside and container yard. AGVs are part of an automated system which includes software and control components.
For more information on our horizontal transport equipment please contact our experts.
Yard
A container yard is the area in which containers are stacked for storage in container terminals. This area takes up most of the terminal area. Terminals vary and so will the container yard. We offer various types of container handling equipment for the container yard.
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Reach stackers
Reach stackers are a special kind of heavy-duty lift truck that can pick containers up from the ground and transport them to a stacking area. They are general-purpose container handling machines, serving the quayside, road trucks and rail wagons as needed.
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Straddle carriers
Straddle carriers are a specialized type of container handling machine that offers excellent container move flexibility across a container terminal. The straddle can do all the needed container moves, pick-up, transport, and stacking containers 1-over-3 high.
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Rubber-tired gantry (RTG) crane
Like the name says, RTG cranes move on rubber tires. They are specialized container handling machines for the container yard, where they move up and down the stacks, picking and placing as needed. They can stack containers up to 1-over-7 high, and 8 lanes wide depending on the yard configuration. They can be operated manually or as part of an automated system.
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Rail-mounted gantry (RMG) crane
RMG cranes run on rails in the container yard, or on rails inland, in intermodal yards. Like RTGs they provide high container stacking density fast travel along the rails. They can be operated manually or as part of an automated system.
For a solution geared to your specific yard situation please contact our experts.
Intermodal
Intermodal terminals are inland terminals that are trans-shipment hubs for inland container traffic. As such they are generally located at “nodes” of geographical connection between roads, railways and rivers. Therefore, containers need to be handled between road trucks, rail wagons and sometimes river barges. We offer a variety of equipment for intermodal handling, extending from reach stackers to manual RMG cranes to RMG cranes with automation. Our offering extends to warehousing and logistics, with electrical overhead cranes and software that controls warehouse processes. No company offers more for intermodal than Konecranes.
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Reach stackers
Reach stackers are a special kind of heavy-duty lift truck that can pick containers up from the ground and transport them to a stacking area. They are general-purpose container handling machines, serving the quayside, road trucks and rail wagons as needed.
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Rail-mounted gantry (RMG) crane
RMG cranes run on rails in the container yard, or on rails inland, in intermodal yards. Like RTGs they provide high container stacking density fast travel along the rails. They can be operated manually or as part of an automated system. Learn more…
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Automated guided vehicles AGV
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are driverless, automated, low-slung machines that are specialized for horizontal transport between the quayside and container yard. AGVs are part of an automated system which includes software and control components.
For a solution geared to your intermodal terminal please contact our experts.
General cargo
To handle any kind of general cargo we offer flexible and powerful equipment for high throughput in sea terminals an also the inland.
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Mobile harbor cranes
Mobile harbor cranes are made for material handling of maximum flexibility in multi-purpose terminals dealing with containers, bulk materials, general cargo and/or project cargo. As their name says, they are mobile – moving around the terminal on rubber tires or rails.
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Lift trucks
Konecranes lift trucks are perfect for general cargo handling operations
For a solution geared to your general cargo handling specification please contact our experts.
Project cargo
To handle any kind of general cargo we offer flexible and powerful equipment for high throughput in sea terminals an also the inland.
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Mobile harbor cranes
Mobile harbor cranes are made for material handling of maximum flexibility in multi-purpose terminals dealing with containers, bulk materials, general cargo and/or project cargo. As their name says, they are mobile – moving around the terminal on rubber tires or rails.
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Lift trucks
Konecranes lift trucks are perfect for general cargo handling operations
For a solution geared to your general cargo handling specification please contact our experts.
Sea terminal
For any kind of seaside import or export bulk terminals we offer high-performance crane solutions on rubber-tires or on rail-mounted portals. They serve any kind of vessel.
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Mobile harbor cranes
Mobile harbor cranes are also designed as 4-rope grab cranes for professional bulk handling. These cranes serve bulk vessels up to the Capesize class. With an up to a 74 grab curve they can reach bulk handling rates of up to 2,200 t/h.
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Portal harbor cranes
Mobile harbor cranes are also available on rail mounted portals. Such portal harbor cranes are mainly used in bulk terminals. The portal can be customized with regards to track gauge and clearance height.
For a solution geared to your specific quayside situation please contact our experts.
Transshipment
For a direct ship-to-ship handling between barges and sea-going vessels we offer innovative crane solutions. The ship-to-ship handling can be done at the terminal, mid-stream on rivers and even off the coast on open-sea.
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Mobile harbor cranes
4-rope mobile harbor cranes provide large working radii and strong lifting capacity curves. Therefor they can be used for transshipment between sea-going vessels and barges.
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Cranes on barge
For terminals with limited or no quay infrastructure cranes on barge offer an excellent opportunity for ship-to-ship handling. On rivers and even on open-sea.
For a solution geared to your specific transshipment situation please contact our experts.