The incident occurred on 20 October, according to a Port Technology report.
The gantry crane did not suffer any serious damage and was able to resume operations, while two of three ship’s cranes were reported to have sustained “serious damage”.
The ship, called the Irma, arrived from Poland on 19 October and is 22 years old.
The Moin Container Terminal is built on an artificial island off the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and has been operational since February 2019. It is equipped with 29 electric rubber-tyred gantry (eRTG) cranes and six Super-Post Panamax gantry cranes. It has an annual capacity of 1.2 million TEU and covers around 40 hectares, with a 650m quay and a draft of 14.m.
In September, APM Terminals, which runs the Moin Container Terminal, took part in Global Safety Day 2022. The focus for this year was ‘We learn and adapt’.
Hannia Fallas, safety and resilience supervisor, said at the time: “Let’s learn from the tasks we do every day at work that can cause serious risk to each of our employees.”
On its website, APM Terminals also said at the time it has an “industry-leading commitment to protecting its people, business partners, the communities we work alongside and the customers we serve, by ensuring our operations are carried out safely and securely with minimal impact to the environment every single day”.
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