Malaysia's Northport container terminal in Port Klang has announced the setting of a new record for port crane productivity earlier this month.
Officials said that a 28-man team led by assistant manager of Operations Ahmad Zamri bin Yusor achieved for the first time at the container terminal 586 crane sequence moves with crane 11, one of four cranes deployed in the operation.
Crane 11, which is equipped with a twin list spreader, set the new record when handling cargo on board the Ocean Promise, a containership loaded with 2,247 TEU, while the vessel was berthed at Northport's Container Terminal 1.
A statement from Northport authorities said the ship was turned around within 15 hours of its arrival, far quicker than the usual turnaround time of 23 hours, averaging 25 moves per hour/crane for a similar vessel.@FAXTEXT ="The average of 350 moves achieved on 5 December on the Ocean Promise by Northport is a new record in container handling performance which the port is now focusing on driving up its productivity to meet the exacting global standards," the release said.
The new crane productivity record comes as Northport recently took delivery of new shipside super post panamax gantry cranes to meet the requirements of mega containerships that can carry more than 8,500 TEU, in a bid to provide faster handling.
The new super post panamax cranes installed at Northport's Container Terminal 3 arrived in November and are expected to be deployed for commercial operation by end of this year.
The new cranes will bring the total number of shipside gantry cranes to 27 including eight super post panamax cranes. They come with an outreach of 18 containers across the beam and have a 25 per cent higher lifting capacity than the cranes presently installed at the dockside.
The cranes made by IMPSA, a Malaysia-Argentina joint-venture crane manufacturing company based at Lumut, have a maximum handling capacity of 50 tonnes and spreader outreach of 19 rows across the ship. The new cranes can also lift up to 42 metres high, five metres more than the other cranes deployed at the port.
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