AAL Shipping (AAL) supplied 4 of the biggest rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) in the provider’s background to the Port of Oslo (Oslo Havn KF),Norway These brand-new generation mobile systems, determining 36 m in elevation and also 28 m in size, were carried from Taicang in China to Oslo on a solitary cruising aboard the 31,000 deadweight ‘mega-size’ multi-purpose vessel (MPV), the AAL Pusan.

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The cranes were crafted and also made by Kalmar, component of Cargotec and also Rainbow-Cargotec Industries Co Ltd (RCI) in Taicang and also will certainly aid to manage the enhanced quantity of container arrivals from Asia and also Europe at Norway’s busiest port– a center that dealt with 1.5 million statistics tonnes of containers in 2019 alone.

The 4 cranes had a mixed weight of virtually 700 tonnes. Three of the cranes were totally put up and also the 4th was filled partially, making use of the AAL Pusan’s port-side hefty lift cranes (700 tonnes max lift).

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They were carried from China to Norway along AAL’s month-to-month‘Asia – Europe Trade Route’ They will certainly be released at the Port of Oslo, Norway’s major logistics center that deals with concerning 80% of the nation’s imported containerised products.

Eike Muentz, General Manager Europe, AAL, commented; “This particular cargo was booked through our Finland office in Porvoo – part of our expanding European office network. Demand for regular and dependable services between Asia and Europe has grown exponentially in 2021, as markets rush to address shortfalls in scheduled development projects and shortages in general stock and commodity levels, depleted due to the pandemic lock-down of the past 18 months. In this sense, we are not just moving project heavy lift cargo like these cranes, but smaller breakbulk parcels, general cargoes, dry bulk commodities, steel, and containers.”

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AAL runs among the multi-purpose delivery industry’s biggest fleets of professional MPV hefty lift vessels, making up both mega-size (30,000+ deadweight tonnage) and also smaller sized tonnage vessels. These are released worldwide, offering the provider’s custom-made vagrant hiring solutions, routine set profession paths and also arranged month-to-month lining solutions.