Atakaş Port Business buys another crane from Konecranes

Photo: Konecranes

The Turkish stevedore has ordered from the Finnish manufacturer a Gottwald Model 7 rail-mounted portal harbour crane, set to start operating in Iskenderun on Turkey's southeast coast in mid-2019.

The machinery is a four-rope G HSK 7528 B crane that's able to lift up to 125t. The gantry has a 50t grab curve and an outreach of maximum 54 m.

The crane's individually designed portal has a clearance of 6 m, the track gauge measuring 14 m. To compensate for the different rail loadings due to the crane offset in relation to its portal, the bogies on the quay side are fitted with eight wheels each and on the land side with six.

Atakaş Port Business' latest purchase, a deal which includes an option for another crane, follows two rubber-tyred Gottwald Model 7 mobile harbour cranes put into operation a year ago.

"Our aim is to provide the greatest benefits to the Mediterranean, Central Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia regions. To meet our goals, we have chosen reliable and high-performance Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour crane technology once again. We started our operations with two flexible rubber-tired cranes to handle various types of cargo, but now need rail-mounted cranes for continuous-duty bulk handling. To enable the new crane to work on our rails, Konecranes will team its mobile harbour crane technology with a portal exactly designed to our needs. We are also preparing to load and unload large container vessels with up to 18 rows at a later date," Vedat Ohri, General Manager, Atakaş Port Business, commented.

Hans-Jürgen Schneider, Regional Sales Manager, Konecranes' Business Unit Mobile Harbor Cranes, also said, "We are proud that this ambitious new Turkish port operator selected our technology right from the outset and continues to opt for it, having come to appreciate its assets."