Ports and industrial sites place some of the toughest demands on rail infrastructure: heavy crane rail loads, continuous operation and corrosive environments. Pandrol works with port operators and industrial rail owners around the world to specify track solutions built for durability and minimal maintenance, keeping port rail logistics moving and crane rail systems running reliably, whatever the conditions.
Port and industrial rail systems carry loads that few other environments match. Ship-to-shore and gantry cranes place repeated, high-intensity stress on crane rail, while round-the-clock cargo operations leave little room for planned maintenance. Salt air, moisture and heavy vehicle traffic accelerate wear and corrosion, and many yards of track are laid in concrete pavement with limited space for adjustment. Getting crane rail fastenings right the first time matters, because access for repairs is difficult to schedule around continuous port operations. Any unplanned downtime on crane or industrial rail has a direct, measurable cost to throughput.
Continuous crane and cargo operations across container terminal rail systems leave narrow maintenance windows, so track work has to be planned around live port activity.
Salt air, moisture and heavy vehicle movements accelerate corrosion, adding pressure on fastening components across crane rail installations.
Repeated heavy loading from ship-to-shore and gantry cranes puts sustained stress on crane rail clips and fastenings.
Many port and industrial yards are set in concrete pavement, leaving little room to adjust track once it's installed.
Port and IndustrialThe Port of Barcelona is Spain’s third and Europe’s ninth largest container port, with a trade volume in excess of 1.7 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TUEs) a year.
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Port and IndustrialOne of the busiest ports in the world, the Port of Qingdao is a seaport on the Yellow Sea in the vicinity of Qingdao, Shandong Province in China. The terminal is jointly funded and built by Qingdao Port Group and DP World.
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Pandrol has manufactured so many rail fastenings over its history that if you lined them all up, you would have enough to build a railway track that stretches all the way from the Earth to the Moon (and we are currently working on the return trip!).
