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A modern container crane capable of lifting two 20-foot (6.1 m) long containers at once (end to end) under the telescopic spreader will generally have a rated lifting capacity of 65 tonnes. Some new cranes have a 120-tonne load capacity, enabling them to lift up to four 20-foot (6.1 m) or two 40-foot (12 m) containers.
Keith Walton Tantlinger (March 22, 1919 – August 27, 2011) was a mechanical engineer and inventor.As Vice President of Engineering at the Fruehauf Trailer Corporation his inventions played a major role in containerization. [1]
Nancy (Crane) Conrad is a teacher, author, publisher, entrepreneur, and public speaker. She is the wife of late astronaut Pete Conrad and Founder and Chair of the Conrad Foundation. Education and early career
The Snoqualmie at her moorings in 1920 The Alki showing off in 1940 Woban Class District Harbor Tug at Pearl Harbor in 1942. The Pacific Coast Engineering Company or PACECO Corp. is an American industrial fabricator and mechanical engineering company headquartered in Haywood, California.
Travelling by road. 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.
McLean was born in Maxton, North Carolina in 1913. [2] His first name was originally spelled Malcolm, though he used Malcom later in life. [3]In 1935, when he finished high school at Winston-Salem, his family did not have enough money to send him to college, but there was enough for McLean to buy a used truck.
A rubber tyred gantry crane (US: rubber tired gantry crane)/ RTG (crane), or sometimes transtainer, is a wheeled mobile gantry crane operated to ground or stack intermodal containers. Inbound containers are stored for future pickup by drayage trucks, and outbound are stored for future loading onto vessels.
John Landis Grove (January 26, 1921 – June 16, 2003) was an American inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. [1] He became known, primarily, for developing the hydraulic crane and access lift industries.