High winds caused the dockside crane at the APL Dutch Harbor terminal in Alaska to collapse in December 2009 and a replacement crane was required. The best option for APL was to modify and transport a late 1980’s vintage MES post-Panamax crane with articulating boom from APL’s Kaohsiung, Taiwan, terminal to Dutch Harbor. The...
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Three new Evergreen container cranes arrived today at the Port of Oakland!
Liftech performed a brief structural performance review of these cranes related to applicable crane seismic provisions. We also reviewed the wharf structure for the crane loads during the transfer from the ship to the wharf.
See the article from the San Francisco Chronicle for...
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