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Port of Savannah receives 4 new Panamax cranes to handle larger ships
PORT of Savannah's Garden City Terminal has taken delivery of four new super post Panamax ship-to-shore cranes designed by Konecranes of Finland to work the largest ships calling on the US east coast, reaching across vessels 22 containers wide.
Counting the new cranes, which have the capacity to move up to 1,000 containers per hour across a single dock, Savannah now has 20 new Panamax cranes and six post-panamax cranes (reaching 17 containers across). Another four new Panamax cranes are due to arrive in 2018, bringing the port's total to 30 that will operate over a dock with 10,000 feet of contiguous berth space.
Georgia Ports Authority COO Ed McCarthy said: "Since the opening of the expanded Panama Canal in June, Garden City Terminal has seen a 40 per cent increase in the number of vessels carrying 8,000 or more twenty-foot equivalent container units. Over the same period, the port of Savannah has seen a 21 per cent increase in the number of TEUs handled per vessel."
"Garden City Terminal completes 100,000 container transactions every week," added GPA board chairman Jimmy Allgood. "Keeping all those transactions moving smoothly requires the authority to maintain capacity at least 20 per cent above demand. Our new cranes help to ensure the terminal remains congestion-free and efficient for customers."
Counting the new cranes, which have the capacity to move up to 1,000 containers per hour across a single dock, Savannah now has 20 new Panamax cranes and six post-panamax cranes (reaching 17 containers across). Another four new Panamax cranes are due to arrive in 2018, bringing the port's total to 30 that will operate over a dock with 10,000 feet of contiguous berth space.
Georgia Ports Authority COO Ed McCarthy said: "Since the opening of the expanded Panama Canal in June, Garden City Terminal has seen a 40 per cent increase in the number of vessels carrying 8,000 or more twenty-foot equivalent container units. Over the same period, the port of Savannah has seen a 21 per cent increase in the number of TEUs handled per vessel."
"Garden City Terminal completes 100,000 container transactions every week," added GPA board chairman Jimmy Allgood. "Keeping all those transactions moving smoothly requires the authority to maintain capacity at least 20 per cent above demand. Our new cranes help to ensure the terminal remains congestion-free and efficient for customers."
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