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Georgia: Four Super-Post-Panamax Cranes for the Port of Savannah

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Four new ship-to-shore cranes arrived at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal in Savannah on June 5, giving the terminal a total of 25 electric-powered container cranes. 

Designed by a Finnish company and assembled in Nantong, China, the cranes can reach across vessels 22 containers wide and lift cargo weighing up to 65 long tons to a height of 136 feet above the dock. Each crane cost $10 million, weighs 1,388 tons and measures 433 feet wide and 185 feet tall. Like the other GPA cranes, the new machines generate their own power for 18 minutes of every hour operation by capturing energy while lowering containers.

Nine cranes in the GPA’s fleet are post-Panamax and 16 are super post-Panamax. They are positioned along a dock offering 9,700 feet of contiguous berth space. 

The first crane is due to come online by early July, with the others to follow at intervals of two to three weeks and all four to be operational by September 1.

Vessel carrying new cranes for the Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal sails under Savannah’s Talmadge Memorial Bridge.
Photo/Georgia Ports Authority
 

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