Schelde-Natie’s new E-Crane® successfully unloads Panamax rapeseed cargo
A common question is “does size matter?”. For Schelde-Natie in the port of Antwerp in Belgium, the answer is now “no”. Schelde-Natie can now offer efficient and immediate high-quality unloading of rapeseed using its new E-Crane®. The first Panamax vessel to be unloaded using the new crane arrived on 8 October last year. Unloading the Cargo gave the 1000- series E-Crane® a full workout.
With an outreach of only 32 metres, and limited space on the dock and only 200 metres of crane rails along the quay, E- Crane engineers had to work closely with Schelde-Natie management...