Halterm set for $10m equipment boost
Canada’s Halterm International Container Terminal is set to bolster its container and reefer handling capabilities over the next 12 months with $10m of new equipment, a move that builds on growth in container traffic at the facility in 2016 and the first half of 2017.
The new equipment will aid the five ship-to-shore crane operation currently in place at the terminal, offering carriers operations across over a kilometre of quay at three berths with between 14 and 16 metres of draft.
“Halterm provides global container carriers with fast and efficient access to eastern Canada, and the Halifax supply-chain reaches far inland and to the US Midwest,” said Kim Holtermand, chief executive at the terminal.
“After significant ship-to-shore crane investments delivered into the operation in early 2014, it is the right time to bring on new rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs) which will be arriving in February (one) and October (two) of next year.”
The terminal, which is the only facility in Eastern Canada able to handle ultra class container vessels of over 10,000 teu, is currently improving its existing container yard, a process involving the removal of three 1970s ship-to-shore crane assets and the adding of new reefer capacity, which marks an increase of over 25%.
“Our five active ship-to-shore cranes, with outreach up to 22 containers wide, are in excellent working condition and still under-utilised with current berth commitments,” Mr Holtermand explained.
Halterm uses mixed equipment for stacking – new Konecranes reachstackers, RTGs and toplift forklifts.
Three new ‘one over five’ Konecranes RTGs are due to be delivered in 2018 and are set to span six lanes.
The cranes will allow Halterm to stack containers five-high across import and export zones – an effective increase in yard capacity by 40%.
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