https://newsletter.en.creamermedia.com
Container|Cranes|Export|Rubber|System|Terminals|Transnet|Transnet Port Terminals|Equipment
Container|Cranes|Export|Rubber|System|Terminals|Transnet|Transnet Port Terminals|Equipment
container|cranes|export|rubber|system|terminals|transnet|transnet-port-terminals|equipment

First new rubber-tyred gantry cranes introduced at Cape Town Container Terminal

Dignitaries at the launch of the new RTGs, including Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and Transnet CEO Michelle Phillips (second and third from right respectively)

Dignitaries at the launch of the new RTGs, including Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and Transnet CEO Michelle Phillips (second and third from right respectively)

17th September 2025

By: Creamer Media Reporter

     

Font size: - +

The first nine of 28 new rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) have been introduced at the Cape Town Container Terminal as part of a R3.4-billion investment programme at the facility by Transnet Port Terminals.

The new diesel-electric RTGs are equipped with an anti-sway system and will operate at wind speeds of at least 90 km/h, compared with current RTGs that can operate at wind speeds of up to 72 km/h.

They are also fitted with video cameras that provide operators with a 3D view to assist with load handling, spreader handling and crane operation.

The equipment is being introduce alongside other initiatives to improve efficiencies at the terminal, including the addition of a fourth shift, a performance-based incentive scheme as well as real-time performance monitoring. 

The changes have already helped improve operational performance at a terminal that faced serious vessel queues and backlogs last year.

Transnet reports that the terminal increased its period-on-period refrigerated container volumes by 32% as at the end of August 2025, while overall export volumes were up by 24%. 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

Comments

Showroom

Flameblock
Flameblock

FlameBlock is a proudly South African company that engineers, manufactures and supplies fire intumescent and retardant products to the fire...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Weir
Weir

Weir is a global leader in mining technology. We recognise that our planet’s future depends on the transition to renewable energy, and that...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

EV lease company Everlectric expands to the Western Cape
EV lease company Everlectric expands to the Western Cape
7th October 2025 By: Irma Venter

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







301

sq:0.066 3.279s - 187pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now