MPDC (Maputo Port Development Company) has just commissioned two Liebherr mobile harbor cranes with a view of improving efficiency and productivity levels in cargo handling. The two LHM550 cranes have a 144-ton lift capacity and will allow an increase in productivity that can go up to 300%.
The cranes, currently in production, will arrive at the Port of Maputo in eight months. Equipped with the revolutionary technology Pactronic, an hybrid system that increases operational efficiency by energy accumulation, the two cranes can work in tandem only requiring one operator, thus being energy cost effective but also increasing the operational efficiency.
On the landside operations, MPDC has also invested in a new slab for Ferro and chrome which will improve its stacking capacity to an additional one million ton per year as well in a wide range of forklifts (in the picture, one of the two new Kalmar 15-ton forklifts), tractors and trailers to ensure a smooth and efficient cargo handling.
