Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. has completed its first ship to shore lift height increase using the company’s new patented jacking system.
The operation was completed at Patrick Terminals – Brisbane Autostrad, located on the east coast of Australia, as part of the crane manufacturer’s Liebherr-Transform business package.
Although the actual lift height amendment has not been disclosed, Liebherr has said that the operation was carried out on a crane supplied in 2015 that offered an existing lift height of 37.5m, but “with larger vessels calling at the port, a lift height extension was required.”
Although Liebherr has been carrying out lift height extensions for a number of years, this new jacking system was only patented in 2022, with the Brisbane terminal seeing its first use.
However, there is already another project confirmed. GCT New York operates four Liebherr ship to shore container cranes. Supplied in 2004, these units have a lift height of 36.57 m and an outreach of 50m, but a Liebherr- Transform project is going to upgrade the lift height of the cranes by 8.6m and the outreach of the cranes by 5.0m to facilitate the working of larger ships.
GCT New York is one of two facilities in the Port of New York/ New Jersey recently acquired by CMA CGM.
