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DRIVES SUCCESSES IN CHINESE PORT CRANES

At a time when we are seeing the world’s biggest expansion in port capacity – where else, but in China – one British company, Control Techniques, is enjoying major successes in providing large AC variable speed drives for port cranes in several Chinese ports.  The latest of these is a huge project for around 160 drives in Xiamen Haicang Port in Fujian Province in the south of the country.

The port is now owned by Hutchisons Ports Holding (Hong Kong), the world’s largest port operator, who is acquiring many of China’s busiest ports.  Xiamen is ranked number seven in China with a throughput of 3.34 M TEU in 2005, an increase of 16.4% on the previous year.

Control Techniques, part of Emerson Industrial Automation, with a well-established Drive Centre in Shanghai and a further Applications Centre in Beijing, has been working closely with a number of the major port crane OEMs in China.  These include ZPMC in Shanghai, the world’s leader in AC cranes, SPMP in Shanghai, Changzhou GT, GangDi in Wuhan and NOELL in Zhangzhou, proving AC drives for both new cranes and retrofits and DC drives primarily for retrofits in ship-to-shore (STS) and rubber-tire-gantry (RTG) port cranes. >>>>>>

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