Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), U.S.A. and Konecranes have closed a contract for the delivery of four Super Post Panamax Ship-to-Shore (STS) container cranes and 15 all-electric Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes to the Garden City Terminal in the Port of Savannah, Georgia. Deliveries will start in the spring of 2007 and continues until April 2008. The value of the order is over 50 MUSD.
As the volume of containers moving through the Port of Savannah escalates and the container vessels grow even larger, bigger and faster cranes are required for container handling. The newly ordered STS cranes can service the largest vessels in the world, and the RTG cranes provide the fastest container flow on the container yard. To date, Konecranes has delivered 11 STS-cranes and 31 RTG-cranes to GPA.
“Konecranes has repeatedly delivered equipment to GPA providing outstanding reliability and productivity allowing us to offer consistent value-based services to our customers. We look forward to Konecranes providing us with the next generation of the most advanced equipment in our industry,” stated Curtis Foltz, Chief Operating Officer, GPA.
“The GPA keeps a keen eye on physical upgrades and expansions to cater for flawless service”, says Sami Korpela, Project Manager, Container Cranes. “We are committed to providing productivity enhancing equipment to GPA and are happy to be able to deliver now also to a U.S. port terminal our STS-cranes using the latest Konecranes AC Drive Technology.”
Technical features of the cranes
The new Super Post Panamax cranes have a 65 long ton lifting capacity and can handle ships of Post Panamax size or container ships of 22 containers wide. The cranes are capable of using the twinlift technique for highest handling capacity. The crane structure is based on Konecranes’ new BoxHunter modular design. The outreach of the cranes is 61 m, designed for the largest container vessels to be built in the near future. The STS-cranes are also equipped with the new generation of Konecranes AC Drive System.
The new 16-wheel all-electric RTGs have a lifting capacity of 50 tons and are capable of stacking containers one-over-five high and six plus truck lane wide. With the highest productivity and the lowest maintenance costs, fuel consumption, pollutant emissions and downtime in the industry, the Konecranes RTG holds approximately 20% of the global market for 16-wheel RTGs.
Further information can be obtained from Mika Mahlberg, Director, Container Cranes Email: [email protected] or phone: +358 20 427 2630
Sami Korpela, Project Manager, Container Cranes Email: [email protected] or phone: +358 20 427 2638
This press release together with a downloadable picture is available at our web site www.konecranes.com.
The caption for the photograph reads: “Konecranes delivers STS cranes and RTG cranes to Georgia Ports Authority”
Georgia Ports Authority is a public corporation existing for the express purpose of developing, maintaining and operating ocean and inland river ports within the state of Georgia. The Georgia Ports Authority owns and operates the Port of Savannah, the Port of Brunswick, the Bainbridge Inland Barge Terminal and the Columbus Inland Barge Terminal. As a multimillion dollar enterprise, the Georgia Ports Authority employs approximately 850 people.
Konecranes is a world-leading group of lifting businesses, serving manufacturing and process industries, shipyards and harbours with productivity-enhancing lifting solutions and services for lifting equipment of every make. In 2005, group sales totalled EUR 971 million. Konecranes has 7,000 employees, at more than 340 service locations in 38 countries. KCI Konecranes is listed on the OMX Helsinki Stock Exchange (symbol: KCI1V).
