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CRANES & DECK MACHINERY

Rapp Delivers on Public Safety

It is no secret that Rapp Marine features, not the least of which will standardized and customizable – Rapp engineers, manufactures, and sells be a custom designed Rapp Marine Marine’s array of crane options safely winches and cranes for ? shing, re- crane. The ? rst of the two boats has cover the full gamut of workboat search, and offshore vessels. What been delivered and the second boat’s needs. When in the case of a local you might not know is that 90 per- construction is well underway. port’s ? re department specifying its cent of all Rapp cranes involve some exact needs when it came to the de- aspect of customization, applications Standardized Features, sired lifting equipment, eventually, the and designs. Very few ’spec’ cranes are Customized for You new crane requirements went to bid, sold. With this in mind, the ? rst of You can’t put a price on safety. With and Rapp got the contract. Looking at two new ? reboats being built by Foss that in mind, the crane division of the ? nal result, it isn’t hard to see why.

Maritime for the Port of Long Beach Rapp Marine U.S. puts quality at the On every assignment, Rapp Ma- (POLB) will include many unique top of the priority list. Benchmarked, rine leverages their QMS processes to capture the speci? c requirements of each customer. With long standing customers in the ? shing, offshore, and

LNG markets, Rapp Marine is often depended upon to provide affordable, robust solutions to meet unique, one- of-a-kind needs. One example of this is a new crane design developed for Foss

Maritime, who recently built a new

Fireboat for the Port of Long Beach and is in the process of building another.

Port of Long Beach ? reboats have many responsibilities. These include material handling, rescue ladder de- ployment, manual title basket rescues and much more. Ultimately, the port speci? ed and ordered deck machinery that was equally versatile. The crane, billed nominally as a material han- dling crane, does so much more. The crane features a personnel basket that is self-leveling via a master-slave cyl- inder system. The basket can also be manually tilted and slewed; its under- side is out? tted with four LED ? ood lights and comes with a night vision (360 degree rotating) camera.

In order to ? t the crane into the tight space allotted on the vessel, but also be capable of achieving the re- quired reach, Rapp engineers came up with a double-telescopic boom.

Brandon Parker, Rapp’s Operations

Manager explained, “The crane can

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