A modern Scania 8x4 grab lorry fitted with a side-tipping body and hydraulic crane is parked at an industrial facility.

As ships grow bigger & cranes taller, a key technology in the handling of shipborne containers is the remote handling of STS cranes. For a crane operator sitting in a small crane cabin, far above ...

BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — Three shipping cranes designed to load and unload the world’s largest container ships have arrived at the Port Newark Container Terminal in New Jersey. The cranes, which cost $40 ...

The Port of Savannah received a massive delivery Thursday: four towering ship-to-shore cranes built to load and unload larger classes of cargo ships at the fourth-busiest U.S. container port. The ...

Ricky Ponce spends his days moving controls that look like toy joysticks, but his job is one of the most dangerous games around: lifting multi-ton cargo containers and lowering them onto trucks as ...

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Port Houston is continuing to amass enormous cranes, with its latest batch standing 270 feet tall with booms capable of unloading vessels some 22 containers wide. Three of these cranes, totaling $35 ...

Authorities have added four quay gantry cranes (QGCs) to the Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) at the Chittagong Port, marking a major boost to its handling capacity. The specialised vessel MV Lan Hai ...