Plant & Equipment

As befits a fully operational deep water port, Port Taranaki has modern plant and equipment capable of servicing all customer needs.

Equipment at Blyde Terminal includes two Liebherr LHM 400 mobile cranes. These cranes primarily handle container cargo but are capable of a wide variety of other tasks, each LHM 400 has an outreach of 48 Meters and a lifting capacity of 104 tonnes at 22 Meters.

The port also operates one Liebherr LHM 1200S with a lifting capacity of 50 tonnes primarily used for Offshore Operating.

Container handling equipment includes 1 Skystacker and 4 Reachstackers capable of stacking containers five high. Container operation and administration is run through the Navis N4 computer system.

Liebherr Mobile Crane: LHM 400