RCT Stevedoring - Loading and unloading

Loading and unloading

RCT Stevedoring is proud of its highly qualified team. We use nothing but the best equipment to load and/or unload your ships, vessels, trucks and containers. We also dispose of all necessary approved hoisting material, chains, hooks and grippers to correctly and safely handle your particular cargo.

The goods we unload or load are weighed on one of our two weighbridges (up to 60 tons). In this way we are able to report the exact loaded or unloaded quantities to our customers.

Loaded and unloaded goods

The 600,000 tons of goods we handle each year consist of:

Ferrous products such as: pig iron, FeSi, FeMn, SiMn, FeCr
Base metals such as aluminium (slabs and ingots), lead, zinc, copper, tin
Tree trunks (lengths from 2 upto 12 metres)
Sawn timber
OSB wooden panels
Minerals
Reinforcing steel bars and concrete reinforcement nets
Steelplates, steel slabs, pipes, tubes, billets, wire rods and coils
Big bags
Project cargo

Vessels

To handle your vessels we dispose of 2 hydraulic cranes on our 350 metre-long quay with a draught up to 8.5 metres:

Hitachi 870 with a reach of 20 metres
Sobemai balance crane with a reach of 32 metres

Trucks and containers

To handle lorries and containers we dispose of:

Liebherr cranes (316-924) for the soft loading of heavy bulk goods in tipping trucks
Volvo bulldozers (L 120) for loading trucks and pushing goods
Svetruck fork-lift trucks (28 tons and 14 tons) for heavy loads
Diesel fork-lifts of 2.5 to 4.5 tons for the loading and unloading of trucks and containers
Bobcats for cleaning ship's holds, as well as loading bulk goods in containers