Liebherr Container Cranes Heading to Russia

Liebherr Container Cranes announced it will deliver four ship to shore container cranes to Fenix Container Terminal, Port of Bronka, St. Petersburg, Russia.

The cranes were designed in Liebherr Container Cranes, Ireland and manufactured in the state of the art facility in Ireland.The completed cranes were then assembled in the Liebherr Rostock plant and barged through the Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg.

The cranes are due to enter operation at the purpose built container terminal on the Baltic sea in the coming weeks. The terminal will be developed in stages, with this initial stage, stage 1 delivering an annual capacity of 1.45 million TEU on this important trade route between Russia and Europe. Stages 2 and 3 of the development will see the capacity of the development reach 1.9 million and 3 million TEU respectively.  

Speaking about the contract, managing director of Liebherr Container Cranes Pat O Leary said, “We supplied our first cranes to Russia many years ago and since then have delivered both STS and RTGs to ports all across Russia. This particular project required that the cranes be delivered fully assembled and our maritime facility in Rostock was utilized to facilitate this.”