Super cranes arrive at Mobile port

MOBILE, Ala. - The Alabama Port of Mobile received two new super Post-Panamax container cranes on June 24. They arrived at the downtown Pinto Steel Terminal. The new cranes will be instrumental in unloading containers of merchandise for the new area Wal-Mart and Amazon distribution centers. It took two months for the cranes to arrive from Shanghai. Port Authority officials say the cranes can handle containers 23-feet wide and can stack up to 10 containers. The two existing cranes at the port can only handle containers 19-feet wide and seven high. The cranes can handle any type of container jobs, according to port officials, and they are hoping that the cranes will attract additional industry to the area. (Source: WKRG-TV 06/24/17)