Rikon ships fully assembled portal cranes to Turkey

Two RPS-1100 portal cranes, assembled and tested at Rikon’s facility in the Port of Riga, have departed for the customer’s site. Weighing 430t each, the cranes were loaded aboard the heavy-lift vessel Poolgracht and are enroute to the customer, one of Turkey’s top 100 industrial enterprises, in a fully assembled state.

Delivering cranes fully assembled is a proven Rikon method, previously applied in the project for Oyak Group. The approach spares the customer months of on-site erection: the equipment arrives ready for integration into the port’s operational cycle. Loading a 430t structure onto a vessel is an engineering task in its own right, one that Rikon specialists handle at the company’s own berth in Riga.

Delivery is only the first stage. Upon the vessel’s arrival, Rikon specialists will carry out unloading, installation on the crane rails, and connection of the equipment to the terminal’s infrastructure. Commissioning of the cranes at the customer’s site is scheduled for this summer.

The RPS-1100 cranes are engineered for a service life of up to 40 years, operate in both hook and grab modes with a capacity of up to 50t, and are adapted to the customer’s climate: wind gusts of up to 43m/s and temperatures ranging from −10degC to +50degC.