The cranes for Haiphong have a lifting capacity of 40 T under spreader.

Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has won a contract to supply an additional six rubber-tyred gantry cranes in the E-RTG variant to Vietnamese company Haiphong Port Holding Limited Liability Company.

The machines will be in operation from mid-2015 in Haiphong, where 12 identical cranes ordered from TPS in September 2013 will start operating at the end of 2014. All 18 cranes are being manufactured at the TPS facility in Xiamen, China. The value of the order is confidential.

With the placement of the second order, Haiphong Port is responding to the rapid development of the second largest port in Vietnam, located 100 km (62 mi.) east of the capital, Hanoi.

Phung Xuan Ha, chairman of Haiphong Port, says: "Our port has developed into the main goods transport hub between Vietnam, Laos and China and is showing enormous growth rates." The decision to order six further gantry cranes before the initial cranes were installed was based on the positive co-operation with the TPS team over the past few months.

"With regard to commissioning of the first cranes, we are in close contact with the TPS staff whose competence and co-operation we have come to know and value. In combination with the technological offering, this confirmed our decision to opt for TPS and encouraged us to take this option now in order to logically further extend the capacities of our terminals," Ha explains.

Maurizio Altieri, general manager of the TPS facility in Xiamen, says he is delighted with the successful entry into the new market: "Vietnam is new territory for our rubber-tyred gantry cranes, and the fact that there will be 18 cranes in operation from 2015 shows enormous confidence in our technology."

The cranes for Haiphong have a lifting capacity of 40 T under spreader. With a hoisting height of ?18 m (59 ft.), they can stack 1-over-5 standard containers and, due to a span of 23.47 m (77 ft.), can cover six rows of containers and a truck lane.