Arun Bhimani, president of Liftech, made two presentations at the Terminal Operations Conference (TOC Asia) in Shanghai, China, on March 17-18. The conference was attended by about 200 delegates from the worldwide commercial maritime community. Mr. Bhimani’s special presentation on Chile provided an update on the damage to the Chilean port facilities from the...
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Following are Feroze Vazifdar’s first hand observations of the damage to the major terminals in Chile, supported by local consultants’ preliminary reports.
San Antonio
San Antonio has seven berths with six ship-to-shore gantry cranes. Two of these cranes were damaged due to ship collisions. Another crane was derailed, but has no significant structural damage, and was...
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I arrived at Santiago airport early in the morning to find that the airport had been shut down due to minor damage, baggage was stacked on the tarmac, and people were lined up to be processed by the Chilean immigration and customs service in tents set up outside the airport building. Customs was well...
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Look for Arun Bhimani’s newly added special presentation on the Earthquake in Chile at the TOC Asia Conference.
Make sure to check out Arun’s other presentation as well.
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Crane and Wharf Performance in the Earthquake in Chile
Liftech is communicating with a local structural consultant and terminal operators regarding the damage assessment of the cranes and the wharves.
Preliminary reports indicate that the container cranes that were designed to the modern seismic codes at the two container terminals in the Valparaiso region performed well,...
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