{"id":598,"date":"2021-04-15T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2021\/04\/15\/sts-cranes-boost-big-ship-capability\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:23:27","slug":"sts-cranes-boost-big-ship-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/north-america\/sts-cranes-boost-big-ship-capability\/","title":{"rendered":"STS cranes boost big ship capability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has ordered 20 eco-efficient Konecranes Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes and 8 Konecranes Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes for the Port of Savannah in the US. Six of the STS cranes will be the largest ever made by Konecranes. GPA recently announced<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/news101\/world\/americas\/major-us-infrastructure-investment\" target=\"_blank\"> projects to increase container capacity at Savannah by 20%, plus these equipment investments aimed at increasing Savannah\u2019s big ship capability.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griff Lynch, executive director of the GPA, said: \u201cThe GPA is always preparing for the next evolution of global trade. The new high-performance and long-lasting STS cranes on order are part of the Big Ship\/Big Berth program. Six of the new cranes will be very large, enabling us to serve the New-Panamax container ships, which will reach us thanks to the dredging of the final portion of Savannah\u2019s shipping channel, which will be done by late 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speedy machines <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The STS cranes will have a very high trolley speed of 250 m\/min and hoisting speeds of 90\/180 m\/min. Their lifting capacity will be 66t in twin-lift, 86.4t with a cargo beam. They will have a designed structural life of over 40 years, thanks to a special rigid gantry frame that will also give operator comfort and a very high container move-per-hour rate.<\/p>\n<p>The 20 Konecranes RTGs on order are diesel-electric machines with cable reel readiness for electric operation. They are high-performance, 16-wheel RTGs with a lifting capacity of 50t, a stacking height of 1-over-6, and a stacking width of 6 plus truck lane wide. They will be equipped with Konecranes\u2019 Active Load Control system, which prevents container sway. The Auto-steering feature is included, which keeps the cranes on a pre-programmed, straight driving path. They will also have Konecranes\u2019 TRUCONNECT remote monitoring system.<\/p>\n<p>The STS cranes will be delivered in two batches, the first in June 2023 and the second in October 2023. The diesel-electric RTG cranes will be delivered in four batches of five cranes in 2021-2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mega STS cranes have been ordered by a US port authority readying itself for the world\u2019s largest container vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}