Gottwald’s floating cranes riding a wave of success

In the USA, Associated Terminals of Louisiana has ordered a G HPK 6400 B for use on the Mississippi, while PT Indo Straits of Indonesia ordered a G HPK 8200 B at the beginning of the year by for use on the open sea. Both cranes are Generation 5 machines and are designed as 4-rope grab cranes. This floating crane order is the second one by Associated Terminals which commissioned its first such unit, a Generation 4 HPK 330 EG in 2006.

The Associated Terminals G HPK 6400 B, a Generation 5, Model 6 variant, is due to be commissioned at the end of 2008 and will be used mainly for transhipping bulk materials, including coal and fertilisers from large ocean-going vessels to smaller river barges. The crane has a grab capacity on the ropes of 50 tonnes up to a radius of 31 m and, depending on the operating conditions, can achieve handling rates of up to 1,000 tonnes per hour.

By the end of this year, the G HPK 8200 B crane sold to new customer PT Indo Straits in Indonesia will be employed on transhipping coal from river barges to ocean-going vessels 4kms (2.5 miles) off the Indonesian coast. The Generation 5, Model 8 machine achieves handling rates of up to 1,500 tonnes per hour. It has a grab capacity of 63 tonnes up to a radius of 34 m and at its maximum radius of 43 m it has a lifting capacity of 50 tonnes.