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More material handling capacity for Shoreham Port
03 October 2005
Some of the port’s vast commercial facilities
include 36,000 metres of covered warehouse, 10 hectares of open
storage area, and a bulk handling terminal.
With an increasing amount of cargo movement the port has to have
the capacity and specific capability to handle this. The
efficiency of the port is well known in the industry and it has
an established reputation for a fast turnaround of vessels, just
one of the added value services that place Shoreham apart from
other ports.
With the future firmly in their sights in maintaining an up to
date fleet of cranes the Port Company has just taken delivery of
a Sennebogen Green Line 870M special with a MS 100 mobile
undercarriage from the UK Distributor E.H.Hassell of Stoke on
Trent. This machine is a special materials handling machine with
a very robust configuration with special boom kinematics and a
service friendly arrangement.
With a state-of-the-art efficient hydraulic system using load
sensing technology the machine has a powerful swing drive via
two swing gears with large dimensioned swing bearing in a 3-row
roller version. A wheeled undercarriage type MS100 with 4-point
swing outriggers provides an outriggers base of 9.5 x 6.5m with
individual control. The machine has strong 70t wide gauge axles,
infinitely variable 1-axle-travel drive via one hydraulic
variable displacement motor and all wheel steering provide an
extremely versatile machine.
Powered by a water cooled Deutz diesel engine BF6M 1015 CP 300kW
/1900 rpm the machine has a special materials handling boom with
a reach of up to 24m. This consists of a 14m curved compact boom
(banana boom) and an 11m grab handling stick with special
materials handling kinematics. The boom and stick cylinders
feature end position damping including safety check valves for
lifting cylinder and an end position shut off boom up/down and
stick in/out function.
The 870M is also fitted with a type 600 skylift-cab which offers
the latest in operator comfort and visibility. With a 1.5m wide
cab complete with a front big ground window
the hydraulically adjustable cab offers adjustment within a
range of 6m.
Port Manager, Alan Motterham
commented, “the 870M special has been in use at Shoreham now for
the past four months, it has been used on various attachments
and proved to be an excellent machine discharging and loading
various commodities, improving our discharge/load rates
considerably. We are very happy with the equipment and recommend
it for small to medium size ports like ours.”
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