The Model 4 cranes, supplied with mechanical grabs and automatic single-lift spreaders, primarily handle coal and containers in the Brazilian Port of Açu, located to the north of Rio de Janeiro. The machines have a radius of up to 46m, a maximum lifting capacity of 100t and a 40t grab curve. Like all Terex Gottwald MHCs in the four-rope grab design, the cranes have a high classification, to provide long service life and, said TPS, they offer high handling rates to facilitate fast ship loading and unloading.

The two G HMK 6507 cranes will be used in Sint Maarten and Haiti for container and general cargo handling, and offer a radius up to 51m, a maximum lifting capacity of 125t and hoisting speeds up to 120 m/min. The crane for Sint Maarten will work together with two existing Terex Gottwald MHCs in the port of the capital, Philipsburg. Sint Maarten is an autonomous part of the Netherlands, and geographically the southern part of a Caribbean island shared with a French dependency (Saint Martin), just south of Anguilla.

The crane for Haiti will be used in the Port of Port-auPrince, which was destroyed by the earthquake of 2010, and has since been systematically rebuilt. At the time of writing, the G HMK 6507 for Haiti has been assembled in a North Sea port, and is en route to Haiti on a heavy load ship, while the G HMK 6507 for Sint Maarten is being assembled on site.

Holger Schauer, regional sales manager for harbour cranes at TPS, remarked: “We have been on a consistent growth course in Brazil for around 15 years, but also, increasingly, in other countries in South and Central America.

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