On the morning of April 1, the sound of machinery at the terminal of the Lingang Equipment Industrial Park Dazhong Zhuang rumbled, and a portal crane with a height of 55.8 meters and a weight of 570 tons was slowly and smoothly loaded onto the ship under the guidance of the staff, ready to be sent to Indonesia. It’s the first time that one gantry crane has been transported in Zhejiang wide, which marks a new leap in the Marine equipment industry of our county port.
It is learned that the three 4037 gantry cranes to be shipped in this batch independently developed by Ningbo Lihua Port Machinery Heavy Industry Co., LTD.,can lift 40 tons of dock goods at one time, serving as Port Heavy Equipment. As is known, Port machinery serves the special equipment used in large-scale infrastructure with high threshold. Lihua Port Machinery is the only large-scale port machinery manufacturer in Ningbo, with many years of experience in the production of offshore equipment, settled in Daxu Town last year.
Compared with the traditional way of transporting the finished bulk parts to the customer's wharf for final assembly, the whole machine transport can be directly landed at the customer's wharf and used after landing on the track and connecting to the power supply, which greatly shortens the construction cycle of the investment project of the wharf, and can also be put into operation in advance to obtain the maximum economic benefits.
How does a 570-ton behemoth get on a freighter? "The changing position of the center of gravity during the loading process and the complex docking environment at the dock all pose great challenges to the loading operation," said Liu Jinkai, the operator of China Foreign Shipping Logistics Co., LTD.was closely observing the crane shape and the tilt of the hull at the work site.
"The launch of this batch of gantry cranes is a solid step towards chart strength," introduced General Manager Ye Zaixian. He also states that the second batch and third batch of goods have been manufactured and entered the assembly stage, and the company is currently holding orders of 400 million yuan, and the delivery orders this year are expected to reach 200 million yuan.