Ram Spreaders has introduced a new headblock design, FlexiLift, for handling 40ft or 45ft containers side-by-side with twin spreaders. According to Ram, during trials in China, FlexiLift achieved 60 40ft moves/crane hour in only its fourth operation.
Ram says the FlexiLift provides a potential breakthough to new higher levels of productivity for both current and future specifications of ship-to-shore cranes. Other known approaches to twin 40/45 handling are ZPMC’s twin hoist crane, the Bromma Tandem spreader (one of which has been ordered by a Hutchison terminal) and the Stinis split headblock....
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