Chile’s biggest container port receives two STS and two RTG cranes

Chile’s San Antonio Internacional S.A. (STI) has announced that four new cranes have arrived at the terminal as part of its US$105m expansion plan.

The four units, which include two ZPMC super post-Panamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and two rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) will be added to the existing six STS cranes and two RTGs at the terminal.

The two STS cranes, which are capable of handling new Panamax vessels with 22 container rows on deck and nine containers high over deck, are part of the expansion plan expected to increase the terminal’s capacity to 1.6m teu by mid-2017.