Cranes & Services

Cranes Ensure Smooth Cargo Handling

Night Cranes At Port Everglades, a vessel's cargo is quickly off-loaded and on-loaded by gantry cranes and spreaders, including:

A full-range of mobile handling equipment is available through franchised stevedores including container top loaders, yard mules, chassis, flatbed trailers and high-capacity forklifts. Around-the-clock, on-site equipment maintenance and an extensive inventory of crane replacement parts significantly reduce downtime.

Locate dozens of stevedoring/cargo handling and crane equipment businesses in the Port Facilities Guide & Directory or call the Port Business Development Division at 954-523-3404.

Crane Specifications:

Southport gantry cranes: Seven Samsung, post-Panamax, low-profile, shuttle boom
Electrics: General Electric

Maximum capacity and speed:

  • Rated capacity (below spreader), 46.5 long ton
  • Rated capacity, (under cargo hook), 57 long ton
  • Hoist unloaded, 380 fpm
  • Lowering loaded, 180 fpm
  • Lowering unloaded, 380 fpm
  • Trolley travel, 600 fpm
  • Boom shuttle time, 2.5 minutes in or out
  • Gantry travel, 150 fpm

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Principal dimensions:

  • Dock rail gauge, 100'
  • Clear height under spreader over rail, 106'3"
  • Overall portal clearance, 50'
  • Total lift minimum, 155'
  • Maximum gantry width (bumpers extended), 86'6"
  • Workable outreach, 145'6"
  • Minimum workable backreach at post-Panamax working position, 45'
  • Maximum boom width, 30'
  • Overall height limit above rail, 151'3"

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Midport cranes: Two

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One Paceco gantry crane
Electrics: General Electric

Maximum capacity and speed:

  • Rated capacity (below spreader), 50 long tons
  • Rated capacity (below cargo hook), 58 long tons
  • Hoist speed at rated capacity, 150 fpm
  • Lower speed at rated capacity, 190 fpm
  • Hoist acceleration at rated capacity, 2 seconds (approx.)
  • Hoist speed with empty spreader, 360 fpm
  • Trolley travel, 500' fpm
  • Gantry travel, 150' fpm
  • Boom travel (up or down), 5 minutes

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Principal dimensions:

  • Dock rail gauge, 50'
  • Frame leg clearance, 60'
  • Overall portal clearance, 51'
  • Total lift, top of rail to underside of spreader, 100'
  • Total lift minimum, 100'
  • Workable outreach, centerline waterside rail to centerline spreader, 135'
  • Backreach, centerline landside rail to centerline spreader, 75'
  • Maximum gantry width (bumpers extended), 95'
  • Boom stowed crane height, 270'

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One Gottwald Mobile Harbor Crane
Electrics:  Siemens Electric

Lift capacity:

  • 40.4 long tons under spreader in single lift mode to maximum radius of 135 feet
  • 49.2 long tons under spreader in twin lift mode to maximum radius of 118 feet
  • 100 long tons under hook to maximum radius of 75 feet

Outreach:

  • 167 feet from center of tower

Lift:

  • 154 feet from pier to bottom of hook

Spreaders: 17 total
Four Bromma Telescopic, 20'/40'/45'
Thirteen Bromma Telescopic, 20'/40'/45' twin pick

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