WARSAW: Poland’s DCT Gdansk ordered 15 Rubber Tired Gantry cranes to Konecranes. The cranes are scheduled to be delivered by the Konecranes during the second half of 2016.
DCT Gdansk is Poland’s largest and fastest-growing container facility, and the only deep-water terminal in the Baltic Sea region having direct ocean vessel calls from the Far East. The terminal handles Polish import and export, transshipment and transit.
The Konecranes RTG cranes on order for DCT Gdansk are high-performance, 16-wheel RTGs with a lifting capacity of 40.6 tons, a stacking height of 1-over-5, and a stacking width of 7 plus truck lane wide. They are all-electric RTGs powered by a cable reel system.
They will be equipped with Konecranes Active Load Control system, which prevents container sway and significantly improves container handling performance. DGPS Autosteering is included, which keeps the crane on a pre programmed, straight driving path. They will also be equipped with Auto-Path Optimizer, which uses the container profile measured by the Konecranes Stack Collision Prevention System to calculate the optimal path between the current container slot and the destination container slot. The cranes will also be equipped with Konecranes’ TRUCONNECT® remote monitoring system.
Mr Maciek Kwiatkowski, CEO of DCT Gdansk, commented, “Winning this order from DCT Gdansk is very satisfying. It strengthens Konecranes’ position as the leading supplier of container cranes in the Baltic Sea Region. It will be our first delivery of RTGs to Poland, a sign of the excellence of our technology and ability to support our cranes. We’ll make sure that DCT Gdansk’s confidence in us is justified,” says Erkki Salminen, Sales Manager Europe, Port Cranes, Konecranes.
