The eight-wheel RTGs are fully electrical and hydraulic-free, and are equipped with Konecranes auto steering system with container positioning and an interface to the terminal operating system. The RTGs ordered can stack one over five containers high and seven wide plus a truck lane.
Bolloré, part of the French Bolloré Group, will take delivery of the eight RTG cranes in March 2010. Konecranes delivered an identical order of eight in 2008.
“Bolloré launched a new investment programme to give the best productivity to the customers of the Abidjan container terminal,” said Lionel Labarre, area manager for Bolloré Africa Logistics. “This programme will increase the storage capacity at the terminal with 22,000 TEUs and will allow SETV to handle nearly 800,000 TEUs a year.”
