XICT buys new cranes
Xiamen International Container Terminals (XICT) has purchased two super post-Panamax quay cranes to strengthen the terminals productivity as well as enhance the competitiveness of the Haicang Port Zone.
The reaction wasn’t because it was the Bollore group that had secured the contract but that it had happened apparently behind closed doors without other parties being invited to tender – an attitude that prompted the local Chamber of Commence to write in protest to the World Bank. It seems that the agreement was reached between Bollore and the port authority but local observers believe it is likely to have needed presidential support as well.
Each quay crane has a 56-metre (21-row) wide outreach, a 45-tonne lifting capacity and a lifting height of 38 metres, capable of accommodating the latest generation of container vessels (8,000-plus TEU).
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