Jun.25--THE first three of 10 rubber tyre gantry cranes from Konecranes in Finland has arrived in the new port of Bronka near St Petersburg on the south bank of the Gulf of Finland.
Arriving from Hanko in Finland, the Meri was the first merchant ship to transit the new, recently built canal providing access to Bronka and dock at the already Berth 3, said the Konecrane statement.
Discharge of the three RTGs was a dress rehearsal for clearance of a vessel at the new terminal in Bronka, in advance of its official opening in September.
The ready-to-work RTGs rolled ashore on their own wheels. A second batch of three RTG cranes will be delivered mid-August.
"With these RTG cranes from Konecranes, we shall achieve high operating reliability and productivity in container handling," said Bronka port CEO Alexei Shukletsov.
The Port of Bronka, with 14.4 metres alongside, is being built on the outskirts of St Petersburg and near the town of Lomonossov.
It includes two terminals plus a logistics centre covering 107 hectares. The container terminal has five berths along quays extending 1,176 metres.
The ro-ro terminal covers 57 hectares, and with a quay length of 630 metres, permitting the simultaneous handling of three ships.
At the first stage of construction, handling capacity of the container terminal totals 1.45 million TEU per year, plus 260,000 units at the ro-ro terminal.
(Source:shippingazette)