New cranes delivered to Port of Savannah

New cranes delivered to Port of Savannah    The Georgia Ports Authority said Monday four new super-post-Panamax cranes had arrived at the Port of Savannah aboard the heavy lift ship Dockwise Tern.
   The new cranes will reduce operating costs and increase flexibility and efficiency at the port, said GPA Executive Director Doug J. Marchand. The port’s Garden City Terminal now has 23 ship-to-shore cranes.
   Scheduled to be operational by mid-summer, the cranes will be able to accommodate 22-container-wide, super-post-Panamax vessels. The cranes were designed in Finland and built in China by Konecranes VLC in China.
   The cranes will be powered solely by electricity and will be able to recapture energy, making them energy efficient.
   “The cranes will generate more than 30 percent of their total energy requirements by tapping into the power of gravity and kinetic energy,” said Wilson Tillotson, GPA’s director of engineering and maintenance. “For every one hour each of these cranes is operational, it uses its own power for approximately 18 minutes.