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bu Dhabi Ports has
planned major expansion in
Khalifa Port. The expansion will
add 1000 metres of quay wall to
the port and deepen its main
channel and basin to 18 metres
from the current 16 metres. The
new quay wall will add an additional 600,000 square metre for
cargo handling.
APM Terminals Pier 400 Los
Angeles raised the height of the
first of ten ship-to-shore (STS)
cranes to 33 feet (10 meters),
making it the tallest port crane in
North America and will be ready
for vessel operations in the next
few months. To create an even
safer place to work, an additional
feature of the upgraded cranes is
the installation of Light Emitting
Diode (LED) illumination, which
will improve operator visibility
and accuracy of the cranes’ Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
programmes. The cranes will
use 60 percent less energy than
conventional lighting systems.
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