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Northport (M) Bhd recently
performed two record-breaking feats with its
cranes.
The first record-breaking feat was achieved by
using three Northport cranes to move 586
containers in eight hours - deem as one working
day.
The second record-breaking feat was achieved by
using one Northport crane (crane 11) to move 350
containers within the same time.
Crane 11, equipped with a twin-list spreader had
achieved this record- breaking feat on Dec 5 on
the ship - Ocean Promise, berthed at the port
container terminal 1.
Ocean Promise is a ship with 2,247 twenty-foot
equivalent units (TEUs) capacity.
Northport management had said they were
currently focussing on driving-up productivity
to meet maritime global standards.
Northport recently took delivery of a few bigger
cranes - the super post panamax gantry cranes -
to handle ultra size container ships (with
carrying capacity over 8,500 TEUs) that dock at
the port.
The new super post-panamax cranes located at
Container Terminal 3 arrived last month.
The super post-panamax cranes would be
commercially operational by year-end at
Northport - the port with arguably the most
extensive spread of shipping connectivity among
Malaysian ports.
The new cranes would help increase the total
shipside gantry cranes of Northport to 27
(including eight super post-panamax cranes).
The new cranes have an outreach of 18 containers
wide and 25% stronger lifting power than
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