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Savage Valero refinery The 1500 Series / Model 9317 crawler mounted E-Crane for the Savage Services operating at the Valero St. Charles refinery in New Orleans, LA is currently up and running. The installation was completed in late March for this E-Crane which is being used to handle coke inside the refinery. This will be the first [...]
Picture of the Month April: Titan underway
To be renamed Titan, Blockbuster’s 30m high and weighs about 1,200 tonnes. Original contractor PUMA used it from 2011-2012 to build an important part of the hard sea defence that will protect Maasvlakte 2 from the sea and from extreme ‘once in 10,000 years’ storms. Blockbuster placed approximately 20,000 individual concrete blocks, each 2.5m³ and weighing over 40,000kg. The crane was disassembled during January 2013 for transport to the Caspian [...]
Many dedicated systems for offloading coal, limestone and other bulk materials are costly, inflexible and require an expensive, hard to maintain infrastructure. The versatile, flexible E-Crane is just the opposite. E-Crane’s modular design and custom solutions make it ideal for any bulk handling application. E-Crane is purpose built for dedicated tasks including: offloading Panamax/Handymax sized vessels; barge loading/unloading; ship loading/unloading; feeding hoppers; and [...]
Division East Flanders Centre KC Eeklo Meetjesland On November 15, 2012, the inauguration of the new scrap loading port crane took place at the Galloo Gent scrap terminal of Galloo Gent (formerly known as Van Heyghen Recycling) in the port of Ghent. When the order for the E-Crane was placed, it was realized that both [...]
Rotterdam, March 28 2013 – On 27 March 2013, Van Oord held a ceremony commissioning crane vessel Titan and accommodation pontoon Astrachan. The honours were done by Mrs E. (Lily) de Wit – wife of Area Director F. (Freek) de Wit – and Mrs M. (Michele) Kamsteeg, wife of Area Manager M.C. (Ries) Kamsteeg. The [...]