Crane supplier Konecranes Southern Africa has secured more than R30-million in contracts to supply cranes to Nigeria and Angola and, most recently, Mozambique.
Two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, due to arrive this month, are being shipped to container and general cargo terminals operator Cornelder de Moçambique at the Port of Beira, in Mozambique.
Each crane is equipped with Konecranes’ remote access technology, enabling remote diagnostics and related in-depth expertise and maintenance services.
The two STS cranes will increase the terminal’s port capacity to 500 000 twenty-foot equivalent units and will ensure that it remains the main gateway to and from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana.
The cranes, each with a reach of 40 m and a lifting capacity of 65 t, will be delivered fully erected. They are designed to handle twin-lift operations.
The second most-recent contract, worth R13-million, entails the supply of ten overhead cranes, twenty 5 t cranes and several Jib cranes to Sonils Oil & Gas, in Angola, to be delivered during the first quarter of the year. This will amount to 122 cranes having been supplied by Konecranes to Sonils’ Luanda port facility thus far.
In late 2012, Konecranes delivered ten Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes to the port operations arm of Nigerian Sifax Group, Ports and Cargo Handling Services, in Lagos, Nigeria.
The RTG cranes are equipped with Konecranes’ new cabin, which offers improved ergonomics and visibility, and Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS)-assisted technology for container yards, including the auto-steering feature, which keeps the crane on a preprogrammed straight driving path.
These features improve safety and increase productivity. The RTG container DGPS is connected to the port’s terminal operating system to ensure real-time container positioning and an accurate inventory. Each electric 16-wheel RTG crane each has a lifting capacity of 50 t.