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Paceco Espana has been appointed by PSA Sines Terminal XXI to design, construct and assemble a ship-to-shore (STS) crane capable of handling the world’s largest ships.
The ‘Portainer Malaccamax’ crane has an outreach of 24 rows of containers and a height under spreader of 48 m.
The terminal currently has natural depth of 17 m, a quay length of 946 m with a feeder berth of 200 m, a yard of 39.1 ha and a total capacity of 2.1m teu per year.
The facility’s main berth already has nine STS cranes in post-Panamax and super-post Panamax sizes, eight of which have been supplied by Paceco with the remaining one by Mitsui, Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES).