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Hybrid straddles for Freeport
Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has
reported a recent order for 10
Terex NSC 634 E ECO hybrid
straddle carriers from Freeport
Container Port (FCP), the
Hutchison Port Holdings affiliate
in the Bahamas, with an option
to purchase an additional 12 machines.
The first machines, which
have a top unladen travel speed of
30 kph, stack 1 over 2 and have
an SWL of 60t under twin 20,
are slated for delivery during May.
This is believed to be the biggest
single order for Noell hybrid
drive straddle carriers, following
earlier deliveries to customers in
Germany and in Antwerp. The
drive comprises a diesel-powered
generator and an array of ultracapacitors,
which provide transient
storage and recycling of energy recovered
during braking and lowering.
This results in significantly
reduced fuel consumption and exhaust
emissions compared to a traditional
drive system. Load surges
on the primary energy source, the
diesel-generator set, are lower, allowing
it to run in a smoother,
energy-efficient manner.
According to TPS, operators
are reporting up to 20% less
fuel consumed (and hence lower
emissions) with Terex straddle
carriers fitted with hybrid drives
compared to Terex’s conventional
diesel-electric drives, depending
on terminal and operating conditions.
They also reported reduced
noise emissions.
“For some years, our hybrid
straddle carriers have proven their
worth in everyday cargo handling,”
stated Guido Luini, managing
director of TPS, Würzburg
factory. “The fact that we have received
this order from Freeport for
a fleet of machines equipped with
this technology is confirmation of
the acceptance for it and, at the
same time, of our leading position
in this segment of the market.”
Freeport is an existing customer
for Noell straddle carriers, with
a fleet of 25 diesel-hydraulic NSC
644 H machines, so it is making
a fuel-saving “jump” by opting
for hybrids, as diesel-electric
drives are more fuel-efficient than
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Noell hybrid straddle carriers in Freeport,
Bahamas
diesel-hydraulic drives in straddle
carrier applications.
According to TPS, as FCP
gradually expands its operations,
it is placing particular emphasis
on the cost-effectiveness and
environmentally compatible operation
of the handling machines
used. In view of this approach, it
was, said Luini, logical that the
customer ordered Terex straddle
carriers with hybrid drives.
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Portek to lease new cranes
Singapore-based Portek Group,
part of Mitsui & Co, is preparing
to step up its activities in the crane
leasing market by offering long
term lease arrangements for new
STS and RTG cranes. Portek has
long offered leases on used, refurbished
cranes, but it is now looking
to broaden its leasing activity
to include new STS and yard crane
fleets large enough to operate a
terminal handling over 1M TEU.
Leasing new equipment has
been done before, but Portek
CEO Takao Omori said most attempts
by leasing companies have
failed because leasing new cranes
will not work as a purely financial
arrangement. Leasing companies
have the commercial strength to
buy new cranes, but they have no
expertise in crane operating and
maintenance, no way to protect
the asset and are not able to guarantee
equipment availability.
Portek’s executive director
and CEO of Portek Systems &
Equipment, Tok Soon Chong,
believes leasing a large fleet of
brand new cranes can be a viable
option if the lease terms combine
financial and engineering/operational
conditions. What terminals
want, he said, is guaranteed crane
uptime over an extended period,
up to 20 years. Removing
the uncertainty over the cost of
this is a very attractive proposition
as it takes some of the risk
out of concession arrangements.
Now that it is owned by Mitsui
& Co, Portek has the financial
backing to finance big crane orders.
It is working on an arrangement
for up to seven STS cranes
and a commensurate number of
RTGs. Portek would design and
specify the cranes, supervise fabrication
and installation, and service
them for 20 years.
Having control of the crane
design, specification and construction
enables Portek to lease new
New rope rocker damper
Germany’s Römer Fördertechnik
GmbH has launched a new rope
rocker device to provide protection
against a falling load in the
case of a wire rope failure. The
rope rocker is designed for hoists
with a minimum of two load
bearing ropes. In the case of a failure
of one rope, “the second rope
must bear the entire load while
being stressed by a load shifting
pulse” said Römer.
The rope rocker acts to reduce
the effect of the load being suddenly
shifted to one rope. “Rope
rocker dampers will be mounted
parallel to both ropes,” stated the
company. “These dampers are
linked with the rope sweep and the
supporting structure by joints. The
Four Konecranes superpost-
Panamax STS cranes have been
shipped semi-erect on board a
DockWise teal class ship to the
Port of Savannah, operated by the
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA).
The 65 LT SWL (twin 20 mode)-
61m outreach (22-wide deck
coverage) cranes are part of an
order that Konecranes received
in 2011. In addition to the four
STS cranes, the order included
20 Konecranes RTGs that have
already been delivered to the customer.
The design of the STS cranes
is identical to the STS cranes
that Konecranes delivered to the
GPA a few years ago. According
to Konecranes, these have turned
out to be among the most productive
cranes in the US. The Port
of Savannah currently operates
116 Konecranes RTGs and 23
Konecranes STS cranes.
Separately, Konecranes has reported
a recent order for four
more RTGs from an existing
customer in Valencia, TCV Stevedoring
Company SA, which is
part of Grup TCB. This will be
Konecranes’ fifth RTG delivery
to TCV and will bring its RTG
complement to 23 machines.
“Our cooperation with TCV
started in 2004 when the first
Konecranes RTGs were ordered
and delivered,” said Kim Salvén,
Konecranes’ sales director, Europe.
equipment with confidence it can
manage the life cycle costs and
guarantee availability. Portek has
experience specifying and supervising
crane fabrication and it has
a lease fleet of around 10 cranes in
service at any time, all of which are
used cranes on shorter duration
leases. It also has several crane maintenance
contracts in Indonesia.
Leasing STS cranes with
guaranteed uptime begs the
question whether Portek might
supply labour to operate the
cranes as well. Omori said Portek
is not looking, at least initially, at
this type of arrangement but it
could be possible at some stage.
Contracting a certain level of productivity,
however, is likely to be
too problematic as crane productivity
depends on more than just
the cranes and their operators.
integrated automatic switching
valve guarantees fast apply times
and very low reset forces during
normal operation. In case of a rope
failure the rope rocker dampers
damp immediately so that a freefall
of the load can be avoided.”
Schematic of new rope rocker
En route to Savannah
Delivery will take place in the
fourth quarter of 2013.
The 16-wheel RTGs are
equipped with Konecranes’ Active
Load Control technology,
diesel fuel saver technology, autosteering
and crane management
system. They have an SWL of 50t
and stack 1over 5 high and 6 +
1 wide.
At the time of writing, another
five Konecranes 16-wheeler,
40t SWL, 7 + 1/1 over 5 RTGs
are being erected at the Meridian
Port Services (MPS) container
terminal in Tema, Ghana.
This follows the delivery of four
fully-erect Konecranes RTGs to
MPS Tema in March this year.
All nine machines are equipped
with Konecranes “Smarter Cabin,”
autosteering and Diesel Fuel
Saver. The container positioning
systems are connected to the TOS
and the RTGs are also equipped
with remote access technology
for ready remote diagnosis by
Konecranes’ engineers.
As previously reported, the Port
of Houston Authority (PHA) recently
placed an order worth almost
US$50M with Konecranes
for four STS cranes for Barbours
Cut Container Terminal. In addition,
PHA has varied upwards a
separate order with Konecranes
for eight RTGs for its Bayport
Terminal to 13 machines, adding
US$5.9M to the contract value.
Konecranes STS cranes being shipped by DockWise to Savannah
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May 2013