Trieste, New Transtainer At The Samer Terminal

Trieste - The Riva Traiana Terminal in the port of Trieste, which is operated by Samer Seaports & Terminals, (60% owned by the Turkish shipowner U. N. Ro-Ro and 40% by the Italian company Samer & Co. Shipping) received the delivery of a 12m high and 50m wide transtainer crane which can hoist up to 45 tonnes. The transtainer crane, which was built by the Austrian firm Kunz at the 3 Maj shipyard in Rijeka, was carried to the port of Trieste on a barge owned by the Trieste-based Ocean company in collaboration with the Italian company Fagioli. The investment, which was totally privately funded by Samer Seaports & Terminals, is intended to transform Trieste’s Molo V wharf, which is the landing for the Motorway of the Sea linking Trieste to Turkey, into a modern railway terminal dedicated to the embarkation and disembarkation of containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers. Samer Seaports & Terminals CEO Doriano Mistrangelo announced that “more than €6.5 million were spent on the purchase, delivery and installation of a high-tech transtainer crane, and several million more to modernise our railway infrastructure and the south side of the Molo V wharf. The trains that come to the terminal are 550m long, and the technicians could only work on half a train at a time, which increased the number of railway manoeuvres required and extended the goods’ loading and unloading times. Now, thanks to the new crane, we will be able to work on two trains at once. It is a little early to make predictions,” he said, “but we have calculated that rail traffic at Molo V could rise by more than 50% in a short time, thus reaching around 3,000 trains per year. Finally, I would like to thank the Port Authority for its support in this operation.”