Crowley Secures Cranes for Puerto Rico

CROWLEY Maritime has procured three new electric ship-to-shore container cranes for its Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

News ID: 72822

Date: 06 March 2017 - 11:06

According to MANA, the cranes, which will be used to handle containers on board the company's two liquefied natural gas-powered Commitment-class container ro-ro vessels, will be delivered to terminal operator Crowley Puerto Rico Services later in March.

Measuring 65 m tall with a 40 m outreach, each crane will be able to handle 65 tons.

The cranes were built by Liebherr Container Cranes, which is a unit of the Liebherr Group in Ireland and are part of the infrastructure investments Crowley is making.

Other upgrades include a new pier, container staging areas, reefer plugs, truck gates and container handling equipment.

Crowley, based in Jacksonville, Florida is investing more than $130m of its $550m total project cost in infrastructure improvements to its Isla Grande terminal.