NEWS
Terex ATs place floating
bridge sections at port
Latin America and is amid
significant expansion.
Because it is located on a
river, which has variable flow
according to the season, the
port of Chibatao has a 1,476-
foot floating pier for ships to
unload their cargo. The pier is
connected to land by a bridge
that is partly floating and
partly supported by pylons.
The recent expansion involved
adding an additional lane to
the bridge that connects the
pier to land. Prefabricated
bridge sections were moved
in on barges and then set into
place.
To lift and place the bridge
sections, three Terex all-
terrain cranes, owned and
operated by Tomiasi Logistica
Pesada, were set up on barges
as well. The cranes used in the
job were a Terex AC 200-1, an
AC 350/6 and an AC 500-2.
“Tomiasi is located not far
away on the Amazon River,
so to ship the cranes, we
just put them on a barge,
fully loaded. It only took 40
minutes to ship [the cranes]
and one hour to have them
ready for work,” said Jander
Roque, Tomiasi sales analyst.
“The difficulty is that we had
to perform a triple lift with
cranes on barges. The load of
each section was between 320
tons and 360 tons. We have a
Terex crawler that could do
the job, if it was on land, but
in this case, to distribute the
load on multiple barges we
used three Terex all-terrain
cranes.”
Tomiasi’s team of eight
people rigged and lifted the
loads.
With 23 Terex cranes in its
fleet, from an RT 780 rough
terrain crane to an AC 500-2
all-terrain crane, Tomiasi
Logistica Pesada is a member
of the Grupo Chibatao.
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The port of Chibatao is located
about 930 miles from the
sea on the Rio Negro River,
one of the Amazon River’s
most important tributaries.
The port is one of the largest
privately owned ports in
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