Pacific Steel Casting Company (Pacific Steel) graciously opened its doors yesterday for Liftech engineers to tour their Berkeley steel foundry. The tour was guided by some highly experienced Pacific Steel employees, including the president, Joe Emmerichs, and a knowledgeable technical sales representative, Dave Standafer.
The tour began at the technology center, where we learned how...
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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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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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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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