RTGs: stressing productivity and “greener” values

In-Depth 1 Mar 2007 by WCN Editorial

There is an increasing trend for RTG manufacturers, particularly European suppliers, to design their product range to maximise productivity and lower life cycle costs. In normal circumstances and given like-for-like throughput figures, an RTG operation requires less land than a straddle carrier operation but is more labour-intensive and as labour costs are often more important than land costs, they may be the telling factor. However, if the productivity of the RTG operation can be increased to c

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