Baltic Hub reported on social media that five giant STS cranes have been loaded on the Zhenhua 32 ship. The vessel sailed from the Chinese port of Changxin and will probably reach Gdańsk in February. Two cranes will be unloaded at the Croatian container terminal, the remaining three are destined to Gdańsk.
Each
crane weighs almost 2,000 tons, is over 96 meters high (140 meters
with the boom raised); it is able to lift a container to a height of
55 meters and lift it above the ship's deck to a length of 74 meters,
with a lifting capacity of up to 65 tons.
The
cranes, after the ship reaches Gdańsk, will be unloaded and
installed on the T3 quay at the Baltic Hub. They will be placed next
to the four cranes that sailed from Changxin to Gdańsk in October
and were installed on the quay at the end of November.
The
installation of another three STS cranes is the next step towards the
partial launch of the T3 quay. Its full launch is planned for the end
of September 2025. As announced by the company, the capacity of the
Baltic Hub terminal will increase by an additional 1.5 million
TEU.
Baltic Hub, which was launched in 2007 under the name DCT
Gdańsk, currently has a transshipment capacity of up to 3 million
TEU per year. The total length of the terminal's two deep-water quays
is 1.3 km, which allows for the handling of four ships at the same
time. The terminal handles over 700 ships per year, including the
world's largest container ships. In 2023, the terminal handled 2.05
million TEU; it employs over 1.4 thousand people.
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