REGION REPORT | LATIN AMERICA
Jaso is another Spanish crane company with a large presence in South America. It, too, has supplied Argentine wind-farm
makers: FAdeA (Fábrica de Argentina de Aviones) is another company, originally in the aero industry, which has recently ventured into wind power. Its wind turbine assembly plant in
Cordoba has five Jaso large-capacity semi- automatic gantry cranes—one a single- girder cranes and four double-girder - with lifting capacities between 40 and 75 tons and spans of 25 metres. The cranes were adapted to the layout of the premises and
Kalmar reachstackers have been supplied to Manaus.
electrically developed for the production process, with added safety systems to move and rotate parts weighing more than 70 tons and to transport up to 150 tons during the assembly process. Steel is another worldwide industry that needs cranes. At a foundry in Mexico Jaso recently installed one of its EAH double- girder charging and handling cranes. It is of 10/30-5 Tm and 20,000 m span, has an open trolley for 110 and 30t lifting, and auxiliary lifting with a 5t hoist. Exports are crucial to expanding economies, and ports are crucial to exports. Latin America is notable for its rivers and for its riverports, several of them many hundreds of miles inland;
Manaus, on the Amazon, is 1500 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean and is the transport hub for the entire Amazon basin. Kalmar in December last year signed an agreement with its longstanding Brazilian partner Super Terminais to provide a comprehensive range of equipment and services for its terminal there. Super Terminais has expanded its
operations by adding 180 meters of wharf; it has ordered four Kalmar reach stackers, two Kalmar empty container handlers, eight Kalmar Essential terminal tractors and the Kalmar Insight performance management tool to help service them. The machines are scheduled to be delivered in the third quarter of 2024.
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