The gantry cranes for berths eight and nine at Trinity Terminal will have a 59.5 metre outreach from the quay allowing them to handle vessels with containers stacked 24 wide across the vessel.
Hutchison Ports, which operates the Port of Felixstowe, will also be raising the 10 existing cranes built by ZPMC at the terminal to 46.5 m to allow them to handle vessels with containers stacked 11 high on deck under all tidal conditions.
The two new cranes are due to be delivered in February 2018.
“Increasing the total number of cranes on the port and increasing the height of 10 cranes on Trinity Terminal will give us greater flexibility to accommodate the largest categories of ship size. In total, we will have 22 cranes capable of handling the largest container vessels in service,” said Clemence Cheng, executive director of Hutchison Ports.
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