HUTCHISON Ports Sohar has reached a new productivity milestone using its new
remote-controlled super post-panamax quayside gantry cranes by achieving an
average gross crane rate (GCR) of 38 moves per hour and a high of 52
moves per hour when serving three vessels over a recent two-week period.
The terminal operator said that
productivity compared with earlier generation cranes is 40 per cent higher,
reported Dubai's Maritime Standard.
"The state-of-the-art systems
will increase the terminal's handling capacity and facilitate growth of Oman
through fast turnaround times," said Hutchison's Sohar operations chief Anacin
Kum.
Hutchison Ports Sohar is a joint venture between Hutchison Ports, the government
of the Sultanate of Oman, Steinweg of the Netherlands and a number of
well-established Omani investors.
Its terminal C facility in
Sohar port features 970 metres of quay with an 18-metre draft alongside. Equipment
includes 11 quayside gantry cranes and 36 rubber-tyre gantry cranes (RTGs).
Current annual capacity is 1.6 million TEU.
Source : HKSG.
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