Long Beach: With Maersk’s slew of giant EEE ships about to hit the waters port operators are having to get creative to handle these 18,000 teu leviathans. While there are a number of ports in the regionthat will be able to handle the world’s largest ships, others are having to seek alternative solutions to handle the nine-high stacked boxes on deck. To this end, CIMC, the leading Chinese marine equipment manufacturer, has developed an innovative side stacking spreader that is inexpensive and can offload the top row of boxes from the side rather overhead, described to SeaShip News as being akin to the woodblock game of Jenga. [06/03/13]
