{"id":4553,"date":"2016-05-25T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2016\/05\/25\/colombian-container-terminal-goes-electric\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:40:45","slug":"colombian-container-terminal-goes-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2016\/05\/25\/colombian-container-terminal-goes-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian container terminal goes electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has also supplied six Drive-In L units for new RTGs manufactured by Konecranes as part of the terminal&#8217;s expansion. Conductix-Wampfler installed the steel structure and overall 10,400m of conductor rail systems.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Burkart, who was in charge of the project at Conductix-Wampfler, said: &#8220;We fitted a total of 25 blocks with the E-RTG Drive-In L solution, each of which was between 100m and 130m long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Single-Side and Back-to-Back systems translated into more than ten kilometres of conductor rails, 50 Drive-In zones, and 25 pillar boxes fitted over a total system length of 2,900 meters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order to convert to the voltage required by the ZPMC RTG&#8217;s, each RTG had to be fitted with two transformers.<\/p>\n<p>As well as installing the Drive-In L units, the RTGs also had to be equipped with a switch cabinet, control system, auto-steering system and reinforcement for the sill beam for holding the Drive-In L units and transformers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conductix-Wampfler&#8217;s system has proven to be the best alternative to using diesel-operated systems, especially given the challenging climatic conditions of the Colombian coast&#8221;, explained Eduardo Montero from Grup TCB, which runs the Colombian terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conductix-Wampfler has modified seven diesel rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes manufactured by Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery (ZPMC) at TCBuen at the Colombian terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}