Drives and motors cut crane energy by 30% at Port of Ravenna 29 August 2013

Two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at the Port of Ravenna, on Italy's Adriatic Coast, are seeing average energy savings of 25—30% since installing an engineering solution involving drives, motors and new crane control software.

The Port of Ravenna used products from two Emerson Industrial Automation businesses: crane management system software, control system software and Unidrive SPMD hoist drives from Control Techniques; and FLS hoist motors from Leroy-Somer.

"Our current investments have been developed to prepare the port to take advantage of future opportunities," explains Milena Fico, general manager of Terminal Container Ravenna, the operator for the Port of Ravenna.

"The upgrades to TCR's STS cranes will improve competitiveness and will give it the ability to attract new business," he adds.

The revamped cranes will have 17 container rows of operational capacity and a lifting capacity of 55 tons. Their height under the spreader is 34.5 meters.

Brian Tinham

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