FOUR PORTAINERS DELIVERED—Long Beach (Calif.) Harbor Facilities Corporation recently accepted delivery of four Paceco Modified A-Frame MACH (modular automated container handling) Portainer® cranes (two shown above). Paceco, Inc., is a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corporation. Two of the 40 Long Ton lifting capacity cranes will be used at Pier C, site of California United Terminal, Inc., while two are located at Long Beach Container Terminal, Pier J. The four Portainer cranes have identical characteristics such as boom outreach of 115 feet and backreach of 50 feet. Each is equipped with telescopic spreaders to handle 20/40-foot containers. All four units were fabricated at Paceco's Gulfport (Miss.) plant and shipped by rail to the Long Beach port. Bickerton Iron Works, Inc. erected the cranes under supervision of Paceco field representatives.
Four Portainers Delivered
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Long Beach Harbor Facilities Corporation has accepted four Paceco Modified A-Frame MACH Portainer cranes for use at Pier C and Pier J.
Mentioned in this article
Company
- Paceco, Inc. crane manufacturer
- Fruehauf Corporation Paceco parent
- California United Terminal, Inc. Pier C terminal operator
- Bickerton Iron Works, Inc. crane erector
Organization
- Long Beach Harbor Facilities Corporation crane purchaser
Product
- Portainer container handling crane
Transcribed from the May 15, 1981 print edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News. Text is OCR-derived and may contain errors.