Quang Ngai (VNA) - Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam Co. Ltd.(Doosan Vina) has shipped five rubber-tyred cranes to India.
Each crane has a weight of 160 tonnes and is 37m high, 28m longand 13m wide. It is designed to handle 41-tonne containers.
The “Made-in-Vietnam” cranes were ordered by Krishnapatnam PortCo. Ltd of India.
These are the first rubber-tyred cranes manufactured by DoosanVietnam.
In March, Doosan Vietnam also exported three rail-mounted quaycranes to India.
They are part of an order of 12 cranes requested by India-basedBharat Mumbai Container Terminals Private Limited, to deal with substantialthroughput at its unit in the Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) in Mumbai. So far, atotal of nine units have been exported to India.
The export is a key project of Doosan Vina, which has beenprioritised for development by the Vietnamese Government.
The three rail-mounted quay cranes have a total weight of 4,440tonnes. Each crane is 73.8m high, 143m long and 26m wide. Each one is designedto handle 75-tonne containers.
The last three cranes of the project are expected to be shipped toIndia in September. Doosan Vina has so far exported more than 70 cranes to theworld market, including PSA Port of Singapore, JNPT of India, Samarinda Port ofIndonesia and several ports of Vietnam.-VNA