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Remote control in the rail yard for Deltaport
GCT Canada has selected Künz and ABB to supply eight remote controlled wide-span single cantilever cranes for Deltaport in Vancouver
The cranes have been ordered as the centrepiece of Global Container Terminals (GCT) Canada’s Deltaport Intermodal Yard Reconfiguration Project. This will increase rail handling capacity by more than 50% to 1.9M TEU per year without expanding the terminal’s footprint.
GCT has been planning an expansion to the Deltaport rail exchange for some time, and most recently changed its original plan to add two new tracks and four new cranes. Instead it will scrap all seven existing RMGs, rearrange the existing two sets of four tracks into a single set of 8 tracks, and buy eight new widespan cranes.
The widespan cranes will have a single cantilever for handling chassis parked at 45 degrees to the cranes. These will be served by a "dedicated auto decoupling tractor trailer fleet”. Tractor operations will be separated from rail moves by a fence, removing longshoremen from trackside operations.
The Künz widespan cranes will be operated by remote control using the ABB crane automation system, a first (as far as is known) for an on-dock rail facility.
“Selected for their proven reliability, productivity, and sustainable innovation, the Künz remotely-operated WSCs will improve safety of the workforce by buffering containers in a transfer zone adjacent to the working tracks. The fully-electric cranes will be equipped with power smart lighting controls, energy-efficient, down-directed LED lighting, and will also not emit any CO2, NOx, or particulate matter. Featuring robust ABB drive controls, the WSC systems will complement GCT Canada's existing fleet, streamlining equipment maintenance procedures” GCT Canada stated.
"Künz is a well-respected, global manufacturer of innovative cranes. The WSCs will ensure GCT Deltaport is equipped to provide our customers with the same best-in-class transit and dwell times that they enjoy today — even while they deploy bigger ships with greater volume discharges into the trade," said Eric Waltz, President of GCT Canada. "Operated by our skilled ILWU workforce, the cranes will be able to operate at wind speeds of 72 kilometres per hour, providing uninterrupted ship-to-rail transfers to the CN and CP network.”
The cranes will be delivered as “fully-fitted and tested assemblies” in 2016, and will be fully-commissioned in 2017.
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