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The leading French port handling operator, Port Synergy, is increasing its ship loading and unloading capacities at its Le Havre terminal with 4 new generation gantries. The spectacular operation lasted a week. Brought from China by the Chinese heavy parcel transporter Zhen Hua 27, the 4 gigantic gantry cranes were unloaded on the Port 2000 quay, at the Terminal de France, by GMP-PortSynergy. At the port of Le Havre, it was a question of checking the admissible load of the quays to receive gantries weighing 2,100 t each, as well as of positioning temporary rails on the quayside in order to move them from the ship to the quay, to the 'using powerful winches, an operation carried out in the open sea barn. These gantries were built by the Chinese ZPMC shipyards in Shanghai, which delivered the first 10 machines operated by the General Port Handling (GMP), installed in Port 2000 since 2006. With a lifting height under the spreader of 54 m, that is to say 5 m more than the 4 jumboized gantry cranes and 14 m more than the first generation gantry cranes, they have a reach of 26 rows of containers, or 72 m, a total length in working position of 153 m, and can simultaneously handle 2 containers of 40 feet, with a lifting capacity of 80 t.