Bromma, continues to expand its fleet of spreaders at Malta Freeport in the growing Mediterranean region.  Bromma currently has 50 GREENLINE™ spreaders in service at Malta Freeport, an early purchaser of Bromma all-electric spreaders. Malta Freeport has also been an early adopter of Bromma STS45E all-electric quay crane twin-lift spreaders. Today Malta Freeport has 6 Bromma GREENLINE separating STS spreaders in service.

In part, Malta Freeport’s decision to specify all-electric STS45E spreaders is due to the advantages of advanced Bromma SCS3 technology. As Mr. Rutter says:

“The communications protocols developed by Bromma looked so good. I mean, if you had a choice between a 2-wire system and 48 core spreader cables, which would you choose? You choose 2-wire, obviously. Anyone can see that it costs you a lot, lot less, plus you have a lot more flexibility.”

In addition, Mr. Rutter cites the dramatic reduction in fault-finding time associated with SCS3 technology:

“Look, before you were blind. The only indication you had when you went to the spreader to see what was wrong were the indication lights on the spreader, and that was far, far short of what you needed. When you are talking about serial communications, one of the things that I like very much is the fact that you can walk to the spreader and open the screen and you can see whether there is a spreader problem, or whether the problem is from the spreader to the crane. And that in the past has been very, very, very difficult to diagnose. The guys here love it, and it is so easy to use. It’s a touch-panel; you just touch the screen and you can go down and down and down to the different levels, and see in what area of the node the signal is working or not working, where the signal is coming or not coming.”

Just as all-electrics have proven to be the future of container handling on the yard, Mr. Rutter also believes that a strong case can be made for a future transition to all-electric spreaders on quay cranes. This is another reason why Bromma all-electric separating twin STS spreaders can be found today in service on Malta Freeport dual-hoist cranes. As Mr. Rutter says:

“I thought the future would be all-electrics – I could see it coming – that we will end up with all-electrics. I mean, it is cheaper; it is cleaner; and there are a lot of benefits in it other than that as well.”