VUOSAARI HARBOUR IN HELSINKI

VUOSAARI HARBOUR IN HELSINKI

State of the art Mantsinen 300 material handling machine changes the logistics industry in an unprecedented direction. Its working power is superior to any other machine before. The machine is part of a project where 800 000 metric tons of pulp bales are shipped annually from Port of Vuosaari in Helsinki to other ports around the world.

A new era for Vuosaari Harbour in Helsinki began in December 2017, when the world’s largest hydraulic material handling machine, the Mantsinen 300, started operation there. The buyer of the machine, which weighs 373 tons and has a reach of 36 metres, is the logistics company Adolf Lahti Yxpila Ab, which is part of the KWH Group. The machine will be used in Vuosaari by Adolf Lahti’s affiliate, Oy M. Rauanheimo Ab.

This project will increase our volume of freight traffic by about ten percent, which will really put the Mantsinen 300 to the test.

Kimmo Mäki, CEO of Port of Helsinki Ltd

An investment in high technology

According Rauanheimo area sales manager Niko Orpana and Adolf Lahti operative director Niko Miettinen, the Mantsinen 300 takes work efficiency at the port to an entirely new level. The Mantsinen 300 can efficiently load six pulp bundles at a time into ships of 40,000 DWT.

Orpana and Miettinen have faith in the Mantsinen 300. In their view, among the benefits of the machine, in addition to efficiency, are speed, good handling, and the HybriLift® system, which provides as much as half of the energy needed for the work through an innovative energy recovery system.

“With Mantsinen we made a conscious decision to invest resources in top class technology. It’ll be interesting to see how much this saves on costs compared to traditional, counterweighted tower cranes,” Miettinen says.

Leading the renewal of the entire field

The Mantsinen 300 has gained a strong foothold on international markets as well. Earlier this year, two Mantsinen material handling machines similar to the one in Vuosaari were put into operation in Belgium, at the Port of Antwerp and the Port of Ghent. According to Mantsinen Group’s vice president of the material handling division Tapio Pirinen, the Mantsinen 300 is the future of cargo handling.

“The possibilities offered by the Mantsinen 300 will transform how companies in the logistics sector think and operate. This is especially so when it comes to Handysize and Panamax vessels. So we’re actually leading the renewal of the entire field.

According to Kimmo Mäki, the Mantsinen 300 further enhances the international standing of Vuosaari Harbour, and creates opportunities to serve an extensive range of needs.

“I’m confident that this will lead to excellent growth in traffic volumes over the coming years,” Niko Miettinen says.

“Mantsinen Group certainly deserves full praise for holding its own so impressively against the giant international firms. This innovative company from eastern Finland is still the only operator capable of manufacturing such a monster machine,” says Niko Miettinen.

More specific technical details of the Mantsinen 300 hydraulic material handling machine can be found from http://www.mantsinen.com/en/products/material-handlers/300/