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N Scale Intermodal Crane
N Scale Intermodal Crane

Scales Help Busy Port traffic flow

The Port of Virginia transportation intermodal container towns faster and more efficiently than any other port in States United States. Norfolk International Terminals is the largest of the four general cargo terminals in dealing with this large amount incoming and outgoing traffic.

An area of about 660 hectares, Norfolk International Terminals is home to the largest container cranes are 271 feet high and move up forty containers of 50 tons per hour. The container terminal storage is more than 34,000 twenty-foot equivalent (TEU).

Balance of concrete cover

METTLER TOLEDO is part of the success of Norfolk International Terminals' since 1996. Through the provision and maintenance 15-truck scales concrete platform, which enables the terminal to handle the large number of trucks carrying goods to and from the port. Each truck from the site is inspected and weighed on a scale of entry. After weighing, the income of a stacker as your container unloaded. An empty container trucks for the return trip and weighed on a scale of production.

Reliable

The terminal handles about 2,900 trucks per day in high season. This equates more than 380 vehicles per day for each scale. truck scales port made reliably. According to Harry Brittingham, specialist equipment, Norfolk International Terminals has replaced only two load cells during the last 12 years.

A composite structure of concrete and steel gives the strength and breadth of sustainability. The result is a wide delivery trucks weighing more reliable long life.

Preventive maintenance

Carlton Scale METTLER TOLEDO certified distributor, has been there every step of the way stops were installed. To maintain the balance is working properly, Carlton offers preventive maintenance inspections every 60 to 90 days. Quality products from METTLER TOLEDO and provide excellent service Carlton Scale cruise terminal operations along maintained.

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METTLER TOLEDO specializes in the area of precision instruments for professional use. METTLER TOLEDO laboratory instruments are used in research, scientific, drug discovery, and quality control labs, amongst many others in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and cosmetics industries.