Esbjerg adds another machine to its mobile harbour crane fleet

Photo: Liebherr

The Danish port has taken delivery of a 48 m-tall Liebherr LHM 800, with a boom length of 66 m and a lifting capacity of up to 308t.

It’s the sixth Liebherr mobile harbour crane in Esbjerg’s fleet, making it according to the manufacturer the owner of the biggest Liebherr mobile harbour crane fleet in Scandinavia.

The new machinery can also work in tandem with another crane, lifting together as much as 448t.

"It is the development within the offshore industry that requires for a new crane with the ability to lift larger and heavier loads than the current cranes are capable of. It is among other things due to the tendency that the components for the offshore wind turbines in the North Sea are becoming larger and larger. At the same time, the need for an ability to handle heavy machinery and production equipment is growing within other industries at the port," Liebherr wrote in a press release.

Dennis Jul Pedersen, CEO, the Port of Esbjerg, also underlined, "I am pleased that we are expanding our crane capacity considerably with the new crane. We need to be able to handle more and more large cargo in the future, and therefore we need to rearm. I am also pleased with the fact that only few ports in the world have a similar crane because it shows that Port Esbjerg is a heavyweight internationally."