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Virginia Port Authority offering for sale three ZPMC Ship to Shore Cranes and a wide selection of replacement parts on GovDeals online marketplace
Virginia Port Authority, VA has placed three ZPMC Post Panamax Ship to Shore cranes and replacement parts for sale on GovDeals, a leading online auction marketplace for surplus equipment. The fully functioning cranes will need to be disassembled and removed by the buyer upon the completion of the auction. Potential buyers have until June 23rd to bid on the cranes.
each ship can carry 4,500 shipping containers but there are newer bigger ships called post-panamax. they can hold more than 18,000 containers, that s four times the capacity of a panamax ship. here s what 18,000 containers would look like stacked in times square. higher than many of the buildings beside. the first will be delivered on june 28th. these ships obviously have to find other routes since the panama canal cannot accommodate them and that is exactly what they re doing. in the meantime, panama is frantically trying to revamp its canal to accommodate bigger ships, but it still won t be able to accommodate the biggest ships. this massive effort in panama will just about double the canal s capacity and cost more than $5 billion. now, when the panama canal is widened, and if the nicaragua canal project actually comes to
panama canal, that the average wait to transit can top 12 days. here s another. the biggest cargo ships that can go through the panama canal are called panamax. each ship can carry 4,500 shipping containers but there are newer bigger ships called post-pannamax. they can hold more than 18,000 containers, that s four times the capacity of a panamax ship. here s what 18,000 containers would look like stacked in times square. higher than many of the buildings beside. the first will be delivered on june 28th. these ships obviously have to find other routes since the panama canal cannot accommodate them and that is exactly what they re doing. in the meantime, panama is frantically trying to revamp its canal to accommodate bigger ships, but it still won t be