Terminal de Contenedores de Tenerife installs three new Super Post-Panamax cranes

Terminal de Contenedores de Tenerife (TCT) has acquired and installed at the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife three new Super Post-Panamax cranes with a 22-row span and an 80-ton load capacity under cargo hook and 65 below spreader. This new investment doubles the number of cranes of these characteristics in operation at its Canary Island facilities.

The investment in this new equipment comprises part of TCT’s strategic plan of converting its East Dock terminal at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife port into a benchmark logistics platform on the Atlantic, as a services hub for regular container traffic lines to/from West Africa and South America by linking these lines with the commercial routes in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe and Far East.

The terminal investment schedule comes to meet the new traffic demands between Europe and the west coast of America in view of the upcoming opening of the new Panama Canal locks, as well as the progressive vessel size developments in the intercontinental traffic sailing between North-Southern Africa and Europe-South America.

In conjunction with the six Super Post-Panamax STS cranes, TCT’s terminal also has eight rubber-tired gantry (RTG) cranes, three reach stackers, twelve tractor cranes, twelve platform cranes plus an innovative foldable Ro-Ro ramp with a rated working load of 180 tons all currently operating. TCT also has connections for more than 750 reefers.

The TCT facilities incorporate a computerized system with fiber optic and Wi-Fi networks for real-time GPS container positioning, automatic access control by means of cameras and optical character recognition (OCR) equipment, with automatic recording of photographs of the containers on arrival and departure, on both land and sea, and web-based customer notification management.

Terminal de Contenedores de Tenerife is a port concession subsidiary of OHL Concesiones, a leading international company in the transportation infrastructure sector pertaining to the OHL Group. In the port sector the company currently operates, with a total managed investment of close to 700 million euros, three port terminals strategically located to serve cargo demands along the routes of the leading shipping companies: on the Atlantic, TCT; and on the Mediterranean and Pacific Ocean respectively Terminales  Marítimas del  Sureste  (TMS) in Spain, and Terminal  Cerros de Valparaíso (TCVAL) in Chile.

New STS cranes arrival at Terminal de Contenedores de Tenerife, Canary Islands.Spain.