Liebherr’s largest port handling machine, the LH 150 ET Gantry Port Litronic, has been handed over and commissioned in DaFeng Port in the Chinese province of Jiangsu.
Ji Xiaobo, general manager of DaFeng Port, said: “The use of the electrically-operated port handling machine is of huge importance to DaFeng Port and our goal of developing DaFeng Port as a green port.”
“The LH 150 ET Gantry Port Litronic will also help DaFeng Port achieve an annual handling capacity of 100 million tonnes.”
Energy saving
Lin Feng, vice general manager at DaFeng Port sais that the new piece of kit is 2.5 times more productive than jib cranes for unloading wood. This shortens the waiting times of the ships and significantly reduces the cost of unloading the timber per tonne increasing the operational efficiency of the port considerably.
Fitted with Liebherr’s standard ERC system, the machine can also store energy allowing it to achieve an output of up to 614 kW with energy savings of 30% at the same time.
Additionally, an integrated high-voltage transformer reduces the 10kV supply voltage of the local mains network to 400V which is then used to operate the main drive of the machine, a 400 kW Liebherr electric motor.
Around 207,000 containers and 51.14 million tonnes of material were handled at the port in 2018 making it an important hub in the centre of Jiangsu province.