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Cranes re-deployed to Gdynia, Tenerife as Hutch tries to revive Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM's moribund container terminal will shortly dispose of its remaining five over-panamax quay cranes to ports of Gdynia in Poland, which will take two and Santa Cruz in Tenerife, which will take three.
Hong Kong's Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) closed its Amsterdam Container Terminal (ACT) three years ago, ending four years of falling volumes, rendering the facility unused after it failed to attract new business.
ACT lost its last mainline customer at the beginning of 2010, when the Grand Alliance downsized its Far East-Europe services and scrapped its former EU-1 service.
Almost three years after disposing of a first set of four ship-to-shore gantries another five cranes from the have been taken by Wagenborg Towage, which also carried out the first transport, will take these to their new ports.
Weighing 1,500 tons each, the cranes will be moved on barges and towed to their destinations by tug, reports Alphaliner. Four self-propelled modular heavy-lift trailers with 16 axles each were used to move them from the pier onto the transporter barges.
Despite this move, Hutchison Group, which had become a shareholder in ACT in late 2008, plans to keep on marketing the Amsterdam terminal to operators of small and mid-sized container and multi-purpose shipping.
Hong Kong's Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) closed its Amsterdam Container Terminal (ACT) three years ago, ending four years of falling volumes, rendering the facility unused after it failed to attract new business.
ACT lost its last mainline customer at the beginning of 2010, when the Grand Alliance downsized its Far East-Europe services and scrapped its former EU-1 service.
Almost three years after disposing of a first set of four ship-to-shore gantries another five cranes from the have been taken by Wagenborg Towage, which also carried out the first transport, will take these to their new ports.
Weighing 1,500 tons each, the cranes will be moved on barges and towed to their destinations by tug, reports Alphaliner. Four self-propelled modular heavy-lift trailers with 16 axles each were used to move them from the pier onto the transporter barges.
Despite this move, Hutchison Group, which had become a shareholder in ACT in late 2008, plans to keep on marketing the Amsterdam terminal to operators of small and mid-sized container and multi-purpose shipping.
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