Types of Cranes Used at Ports The transportation of bulk goods, or materials of a volume exceeding that of containers, requires special cranes, which have attachments and a tethering mechanism for movement inside a warehouse, port, or working area. The port gantry crane is the fundamental infrastructures of handling goods and ships at all types of ports is a dock-based cargo-and-unloading crane. The role of cranes, particularly heavy cranes such as port gantry cranes, is highly valued at ports as a large amount of goods need to be assembled, moved, and removed from container to container, making heavy cranes essential to operations.
The port gantry crane is used extensively for loading and unloading containers from ships, and for handling freight and stacking containers in container terminals. With the advancement of container ships, this gantry crane on the dock needs higher efficiency and higher capability to handle larger container ships. The port gantry crane may also function as a dockside ship-to-shore gantry crane for loading and unloading intermodal containers from vessels. A container crane (also container handling gantry crane or ship-to-shore crane) is a type of large gantry crane on piers that is found in container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships.
The main work of the crane operator in the harbor is loading and unloading containers for shipment off of a vessel or on a ship. The crane also picks up containers from crates at a dock in order to load them on to the vessel. Without the Port Cranes assistance, containers cannot be stacked on a dock, nor loaded on the vessel.
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