The port of Vanino (Khabarovsk Territory) has acquired a new Mantsinen RCT-90 crane. The handling equipment was delivered under a 2009 contract with the Mantsinen Group Ltd. Oy, a Finnish manufacturer. Crawler mobile harbor crane will be operated at the third facility complex for handling bulk cargoes, in particular, for offloading coal at the warehouse from the rail cars. The new state-of-the-art equipment will boost loading operations at the port, the PV press service said.

The RTC-90 crane is the fifth crane by Mantsinen added to the Port of Vanino’s cranes fleet. The machine’s max. horizontal reach is 25 m and its lifting capacity is some 16 ton / 10m.

Port of Vanino is the largest stevedoring company in the Khabarovsk Territory. Through the Port of Vanino commodities are shipped to the Russian North-East regions and exported to Japan, South Korea, China, Australia, USA and other countries in Asia Pacific. Throughput of the seaport in 2009 totaled 6 million tons of commodities, a year-over-year 9.4 percent drop.