For the first time, Terex Port Solutions (TPS) will deliver a Terex Quaymate M50 mobile harbour crane to Latin America. The Uruguayan port operator Somasol S.A. (Somasol) has ordered the machine for the terminal in Fray Bentos, situated beside the Uruguay River close to the border with Argentina. The machine will be manufactured and assembled by the Chinese site of TPS in Xiamen and is due to be shipped to Uruguay by the end of the year.

In Fray Bentos, the Quaymate M50 with a maximum lifting capacity of 50 t, an outreach of up to 36 m and a maximum hoist speed of 50 m/min will operate in the transatlantic dock of the terminal, located 120 km north of the Rio de la Plata estuary in Uruguay?s agricultural and cattle raising area. The efficient and versatile machine will mainly handle citrus fruit, grain and round timber and help to increase the handling volume further.

The Quaymate M50 is designed as a ?genuine? mobile harbour crane for continuous operation and therefore for a sufficient number of load cycles. It is easy to manoeuvre and position alongside the vessel.