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Equipment stock take
10 Sep 2008
In terms of equipment, Grupo's Libra's Terminal 37 in Santos, which covers an area of 371,000 sq m, has seven quayside gantry cranes deployed along its 1,100 metre long quay. The two most recent are also the biggest.
They were delivered in 2006 and have an outreach over 19 rows of ship-stowed containers, two more than the three cranes delivered in 1999.
The
Rio terminal is more modest having just three
cranes, which became operational in 1984, 1997 and 2007 respectively. The most
recent can service 18 rows wide.
The
yard at Santos
is worked by a mix of 13 RTGs capable of stacking one-over-five and 19
reachstackers.
While some of the reachstackers are used to move containers between the quay and the yard, this job is mostly undertaken by 60 terminal tractors.
