The first four of eight Liebherr RTG cranes had been received Friday morning by Somaliland’s Berbera Port Authority and unloaded from the United Heavy Lift Future vessel carrying them to DP World Berbera’s New Container Terminal in Somaliland.
The second four RTG cranes will arrive in Somaliland in the early of next year.
The RTG cranes which DP World ordered for Berbera as part of the development and upgrade work in progress at the Red Sea port will be ready to take on the extra activity anticipated after the 400-meter quay and 25ha container yard open for business during the first quarter of 2021.
The four RTG cranes will join three Liebherr LHM 420 mobile harbor cranes delivered last year.
Features of the new RTG cranes include a gantry camera and laser anti-collision systems as well as the company’s DGPS auto-steering and stack profiling technology. They will also be equipped with the manufacturer’s remote diagnostics and maintenance software, DiaMon3D.
Meanwhile, as Afloat reported on Monday, UHL Focus, the second of two heavy lift vessels has loaded four of eight RTG cranes in the Port of Cork for discharge in Berbera, Somaliland.
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As reported earlier, the heavy-lift operations have been ongoing at Cork Dockyard in Cork Harbour this month when the first shipment which has been received on Friday by Somaliland port of Berbera, was loaded on to UHL Future,
This week’s second sister ship arrival will load the other half of the Liebherr cargo. The vessel, a General Cargo Ship was built in 2019 and is sailing under the flag of Madeira.
The consignment for Somaliland arrived at the Cork Docks in October 2020.
Once completed, Berbera port will be a major player in the regional and continental trade movement and economy, especially in the Horn and Eastern Africa countries.
The pace of development work that DP World carries out at the port appears to have balked Djibouti to a degree that its President Ismail Omar Guelleh has often scoffed at the input made even denying that there were any.
It is not clear yet whether the guided tour the government of Djibouti has given the President of Somaliland, Muse Bihi Abdi, who currently on an official visit there, on its ports on Friday, signals a change of heart on the part of Guelleh who accepts the reality of Berbera or another ploy to try jinx its progress.
RTG cranes installment has been started at the port of Berbera, Republic of #Somaliland.
Berbera will surely be a very strategic trade and logistic hub in the Horn of Africa. pic.twitter.com/X6YzvMYxwN
— Ismael Shirwac (@Ismael_Shirwac) December 27, 2020
Four of eight RTG cranes are loaded onto vessels
and under way to Berbera #Somaliland
2021 will be major breakthrough…Inshallah pic.twitter.com/2OEdwpsRcV— محمد عمر (@Mo_Umar5) December 9, 2020
Dhismaha dekedda Berbera wuxuu noqon doonaa mid si guul ah ku dhamaada.
Shalay waxaa laga hirgeliyay wadada dhismaha tareenka ee loo yaqaan 'STS trail truck A150' iyo balaarinta dekedda oo iyadna gabo gabo ku dhaw.
Hambalyo dhamaan reer Somaliland.#berberaport #Somaliland pic.twitter.com/C6TnMQbFik— Abdirahman abdiqadir (@Abdirahma46) December 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/Mrkhalifa909/status/1342369443167481856
@Liebherr manufactured RTG cranes designed for maximum loading conditions arrived at the Berbera Port of the republic of #Somaliland to increase efficiency.
Not only, #Somaliland made a diplomatic progress this year but also achieved an enormous infrastructural advancement. pic.twitter.com/wNDAULb2gh
— Ismael Shirwac (@Ismael_Shirwac) December 24, 2020
