Floating container cranes may be the answer to congestion in ports and the demand for fast handling of vessels, even in ports which are not fully equipped for receiving container ships. That is the opinion of both civil engineer Jan van Beemen and professor Han Ligteringen, manager - business development of Netherlands-based Royal Haskoning, who developed the floating container crane concept as part of a project called Container Terminal of the Future. The floating crane is claimed to be less expensive than land based cranes, and more flexible. Their invention may be an unwelcome one for organisations such as the Ceres Paragon Terminal in Amsterdam, where vessels can be handled at either side. As ships become wider, cranes designed for serving early generations of post-panamax box ships are proving to have insufficient reach to work the full width of the vessel.
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机译：浮动式集装箱起重机可能是港口拥挤和快速处理船舶的需求的答案，即使在港口没有完全配备接收集装箱船的港口也是如此。这是土木工程师Jan van Beemen和荷兰皇家Haskoning业务发展经理Han Ligteringen教授的观点，他开发了浮动集装箱起重机概念，并将其作为名为“未来集装箱码头”项目的一部分。浮动式起重机据称比陆上起重机便宜，并且更灵活。他们的发明对于像阿姆斯特丹的Ceres Paragon Terminal这样的组织可以在任一侧进行处理的组织来说可能是不受欢迎的。随着船舶的不断扩大，事实证明，为早期巴拿马型棚式集装箱船服务的起重机，其伸手可及的距离不足以在船的整个宽度上工作。
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