Port’s crane back in use next week
Lyttelton’s Portainer container crane will start work again next week. The 550-tonne crane collapsed after it was hit by a berthing ship on February 15, last year. Since then it has been rebuilt structurally and resassembled mechanically and electrically. The rebuilding of the crane was due to finish before Christmas, but a labour strike by contract riggers delayed Marine Division certification tests.
The crane’s final electrical certification test began yesterday and is expected to be finished on Monday. The container terminal
manager at the port, Mr Bill Siddall, said minor repairs to the wharf where the crane is sited were all that was stopping the crane from starting work. He predicted it would be in use by the end of next week. Mr Siddall said the crane’s temporary replacement, a Singaporeanowned Samba, was sought by the Auckland Harbour Board. The application for transfer has to go before the Ports Authority. Mr Siddall said Lyttelton container throughput would increase slightly with the old crane as it had a slightly faster handling rate than the Samba.
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Press, 8 February 1986, Page 9
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