The cranes were designed in Liebherr Container Cranes, Ireland and manufactured in the state of the art facility in Ireland. The completed cranes were assembled in the Liebherr Rostock plant and barged through the Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg.
The cranes are due to enter
operation at the purpose built container terminal on the Baltic sea in the
coming weeks. The terminal will be developed in stages, with this initial
stage, stage 1 delivering an annual capacity of 1.45 million TEU on this
important trade route between Russia and Europe. Stages 2 and 3 of the
development will see the capacity of the development reach 1.9 million and 3
million TEU respectively.
Speaking about the contract,
managing director of Liebherr Container Cranes, Pat O Leary commented,
“Liebherr is proud to have been
selected as a partner to help deliver this important project. At Liebherr
Container Cranes, we have been designing and manufacturing cranes at our
facility in Ireland since 1958. This wealth of experience has given us an
expertise and knowledge which is second to none. We supplied our first cranes
to Russia, many years ago and since then have delivered both STS and RTGs to ports
all across Russia. This particular project required that the cranes be
delivered fully assembled and our maritime facility in Rostock was utilized to
facilitate this.”