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Six ZPMC STS container cranes have been raised for

Total Terminals International at the company’s Long Beach, California terminal using moving and lifting systems from Nordholm Rentals. (Photo courtesy of Vestdavit)

The HN-9000 davit from Vestdavit: a hydraulically-operated dual-point davit with a 9,000 kg SWL. by PCMC with system operation under the control of Liebherr maritime headquarter in Rostock, Germany. https://nordholmrentals.com

Nordholm Rentals personnel. The average raise time Each crane has a maximum lifting capacity of 124 tons for the cranes was four hours. at an outreach of up to 18 meters

Liebherr: High Performance Twins

The cranes were manufactured in China from modi- German port handling company EPAS earlier this This investment will signi? cantly improve the logis- ? cation steel supplied by another Chinese company: year received two new Liebherr mobile harbor cranes tic processes at the Nordkai terminal in Emden. The

Liftech was responsible for modi? cation engineering type LHM 420. Both cranes together can handle up to main driver in the decision process was the capability and Nordholm Rentals was in charge of the raise-and- 248 tons in tandem lift operation. The two devices will to do twin lift operation. move engineering aspect of the project. further improve the logistic process at the Nordkai ter- Liebherr convinced with its synchronized lifting as-

The Long Beach terminal was jointly owned by minal in Emden, Germany. sist system Sycratronic. The system makes it possible

Hanjin, which went bankrupt in mid-project. Funding, To further increase the turnover capacity, the German to operate two Liebherr cranes in tandem mode. A crane however, had already been set aside and the project was port company invested in high-end mobile harbor crane operator controls the movement of both machines that supported by the remaining owners, primarily Mediter- technology from Liebherr. End of 2017 EPAS received are electronically synchronized.

Further information: www.liebherr.com ranean Shipping Corporation. two new Liebherr machines, type LHM 420, from the www.marinelink.com 69

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