The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has ordered 20 eco-efficient Konecranes Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes and 8 Konecranes Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes for the Port of Savannah.
The GPA placed the order as it prepares to serve the world’s largest container vessels such as the HMM Algeciras class and Maersk’s Triple-E class, which have capacities of 24,000TEU or more.
[s2If is_user_logged_in()]”The new high-performance and long-lasting STS cranes on order are part of the Big Ship/Big Berth program,” said Griff Lynch, GPA’s executive director, and added, “Six of the new cranes will be very large, enabling us to serve the New-Panamax container ships, which will reach us thanks to the dredging of the final portion of Savannah’s shipping channel, which will be done by late 2021.”
The RTG order was booked in the first quarter of the year and the STS order was booked in the fourth quarter of 2020. Additionally, the STS cranes will be delivered in two batches, the first in June 2023 and the second in October of the same year, while the diesel-electric RTG cranes will be delivered in four batches of five cranes between 2021 and 2022.
Mika Mahlberg, executive VP, Konecranes Port Solutions, outlined the long-term partnership of the two companies, which lasts since the early 1990s, and pointed out that the six of the new STS cranes will be the largest that Konecranes will have ever made.
When the new Konecranes STS and RTG cranes enter service, the Finish manufacturer will have delivered 45 STS cranes and 201 RTGs to the GPA.
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