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A container crane (also container handling gantry crane or ship-to-shore crane) is a type of large dockside gantry crane found at container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships. Container cranes at Kochi Port. Container cranes consist of a supporting framework that can traverse the length of a quay or ...
There are also electric rubber tired gantry cranes. [4] The first electrified rubber-tyred gantry cranes (ERTG) in China was unveiled by the She Kou container terminal (SCT) in Shenzhen in Aug 2008. Rubber-tired gantry cranes are also being electrified at the Port of Long Beach to improve air quality, with funding from the California Energy ...
A container chassis, also called intermodal chassis or skeletal trailer, is a type of semi-trailer designed to securely carry an intermodal container. Chassis are used by truckers to deliver containers between ports , railyards, container depots, and shipper facilities, [ 1 ] : 2–3 and are thus a key part of the intermodal supply chain .
Cranes on a LoLo vessel Flora Delmas, a LoLo vessel Container with a crane on it. Lift-on/lift-off (LoLo, sometimes LOLO, LO/LO or Lo/Lo) [1] ships are cargo ships with on-board cranes to load and unload cargo. Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels.
The sidelifter loads and unloads containers via a pair of hydraulic powered cranes mounted at each end of the vehicle chassis. The cranes are designed to lift containers from the ground, from other vehicles including rolling stock, from railway wagons and directly from stacks on docks or aboard container ships. A standard sidelifter is also ...
Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading, is the process of unitization of cargoes in exports. Containerization is the predominant form of unitization of export cargoes today, as opposed to other systems such as the barge system or palletization. [ 2 ]
Translift Rubber Tired Gantry Crane at Mi-Jack. Mi-Jack Products is an American manufacturer of industrial, intermodal, and port cranes based in Hazel Crest, Illinois. [1] It manufactures Travelift and Translift rubber-tired gantry cranes, as well as various other container handling systems [2] and is a part of the Lanco Group of Companies.
The vessel is typically fitted with two Gantry cranes for self-loading and unloading, with a typical SWL (safe working load) between 30 and 80 tons.Different equipment is connected to the gantry crane depending on cargo type as vacuum clamps for paper, unihook for unitised cargo, container frame and grab for bulk cargoes.