The MSC PSA European Terminal (MPET) in Port of Antwerp-Bruges set a new record during the 2023 Easter holidays, MPET reported on LinkedIn. When loading and unloading a ship, the quay cranes achieved a record amount of movements.
Thanks to eight quay cranes working simultaneously, as many as 197 movements per hour were achieved when loading or unloading the 398-metre-long 2016 container ship ‘MSC Reef’. This allowed more than ten thousand containers to be moved in just two and a half days.
MPET, Europe’s largest container terminal, now has some 41 quay cranes in service. At the end of March 2023, MPET also made headlines with the inauguration of the first hydrogen-powered straddle carrier in the port of Antwerp.
This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English.
