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New cranes for handling terminal
Terminal operator DUSS in Hamburg-Billwerder is replacing five of seven gantry cranes during ongoing operations.
Modernization of the DUSS Terminal in Ham- burg-Billwerder has been in progress over the A1 au- tobahn since the end of last year. Five of seven gan- try cranes will have been replaced by mid-2021. The first new crane had already been completed by the end of December 2019 and went into operation in mid-February. To keep disruption of operational rou- tines and road traffic around the terminal site to a minimum, the largest elements were delivered mainly at night.
“A crane should be seen as a kit, basically consisting of four trolleys, two cross beams, two fixed sup- ports, two pendulum supports and two crane beam girders, with the trolley and the crane slewing gear running along them,” says Chris Fanter, Terminal
Operations Manager for DUSS in Hamburg-Billwerd- er. Other elements are the trolley itself, with the crane cabin suspended below, and the spreader. “The crane track remains during the whole time of erection, handling daily throughput,” adds Fanter. The old crane is not dismantled until the new one is operational.
The main innovations are additional redundant se- curity brake systems, higher speeds and greater acceleration. The grab arms are meanwhile fitted with cameras, so that the crane operator can see evenbetterwhereitcangraspthetrailersorswap bodies with the grippers on the side facing away from it. Cranes 4 and 5 in module 2 are now in rou- tine daily operation. In module 1, where three oth- er cranes are located, an additional crane is to be taken into service by the end of October. Nicole de Jong
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UPGRADING TO ELECTRONIC SIGNAL BOX
A good example for this is the upgrading of Drade- nau signal-box in the western port from a relay inter- locking system into a modern electronic signal box. The rebuilding comprises the entire control and safe- ty technologies for the Dradenau section of Waltershof rail terminal segment. Here, Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has invested 8.5 million euros. The upgrading and newbuilding were carried out during normal railway operations. “The entire build-
ing period was broken down into three main stages, making it possible to impact the infrastructure, and with it the rail operating companies and sidings oper- ators, as little as possible,” explained Olaf Lampe, Project Manager for Hamburg Port Railway.
During the conversion, the building workers laid 20,000 metres of cable conduit and 28,000 metres of cable, removing old signal box components and putting in new ones. In addition, the Port Railway re- placed main signals, stop-light signals, point drive
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