Xiamen International Container Terminals (XICT) has commissioned two post-panamax quay cranes for its Hutchison Delta Ports (HDP) company.

HDP general manager Alfred Leung said the new cranes would accommodate the operational needs of a fourth berth, which added an additional 140-metre quay and a 78,000-square-metre container yard at XICT.

The increase in facilities demonstrated HDP's confidence in Xiamen's hub-port development, Mr Leung said. The two quay cranes were manufactured by Shanghai Port Machinery Plant. Each crane has a 52-metre (18 row) wide outreach and a 41-tonne capacity.

Together with a previous delivery of five rubber-tyred-gantries last December, the new quay cranes enhance XICT's capacity by 40 percent.