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Container crane toppled - dramatic moment a vessel demolished a crane
An incident involving the Liberia
flagged containership on Monday
has been released showing the dramatic moment the vessel demolished a modern gantry crane at ICTSI’s Contecon terminal in Ecuador.
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Container crane toppled
An incident involving the Liberia-flagged containership,
CCNI
Antartico on Monday has been released showing the dramatic moment
the vessel demolished a modern gantry crane at ICTSI’s Contecon
terminal in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The 2002-built gearless boxship with a capacity of 4,100teu was on its maiden voyage as part of the CCNI fleet where it has been deployed to serve between Asia and the west coast of South America.
Footage posted on popular website YouTube by a Contecon stevedore shows the dramatic moment the CCNI Antartico brushed another vessel at berth before ploughing into one of three gantry cranes at the Contecon facility. Remarkably nobody was injured in the accident.
Investigators are looking into the extent of the damage caused by the incident but Luis Cao, Contecon’s general manager said that the crane had been “seriously damaged” and would need to be replaced, a measure that will hit productivity at the port
for up to eight months.
There was “minor” damage to the berth and the vessel and the cargo waiting to be loaded on the vessel was not affected. Ecuador’s largest container terminal remains fully operational, said Cao.Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (China) is responsible for the management of the 2002-built vessel, which was chartered by CCNI in February for a period of 12 months at US$11,000 a day. Capable of handling ships with up to 18 rows of containers, the ZPMC cranes are believed to have cost the company around $7m each when they were ordered as part of a $32m package to buy three gantry cranes and eight RTGs from the Chinese crane manufacturer in 2008.
The three post-panamax cranes were commissioned in February 2009 as part of more than $100m of investment in the terminal that included a berth extension capable of receiving the equipment.The Manila-based container terminal specialist won the concession to operate Ecuador’s most important gateway in 2006.Guayaquil handles around 75% of the country’s international trade and over 90% of the country’s container traffic. Last year, according to statistics published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the port handled 884,100teu as well as more than 2m tonnes of general cargo - mainly bananas of which Ecuador is the world’s largest exporter. ICTSI’s Contecon facility handles around two-thirds of container volumes in the port.
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