Built with American hands & American steel.
Port Cranes of America builds rubber-tired gantry cranes for U.S. ports and container terminals in Belle Chasse and Broussard, Louisiana — with controls engineered by Siemens.
America's port cranes are built overseas
More than 80% of the ship-to-shore and rubber-tired gantry cranes working at U.S. ports were built abroad — the large majority by a single state-influenced manufacturer in China. The U.S. Coast Guard, CISA and members of Congress have identified that dependence as a supply-chain and cybersecurity vulnerability at the nation's ports.
An American-built RTG
Port Cranes of America — a joint venture of Core Lifting, LLC and Stafford Crane Group — builds the RTG 50 LT inside an operating heavy-crane manufacturing network, with controls engineered by Siemens and built secure-by-design in coordination with CISA. Priced at parity with European and Japanese imports, without the ocean freight or the tariffs.
A domestic source for the machines that move American cargo
American-built
Fabricated, assembled and load-tested in Louisiana, on a Build America, Buy America (BABA) compliance track for publicly funded port projects.
Proven design
Engineered by a design team with 40 years on STS, RTG and RMG port cranes — not a prototype.
Close to your terminal
Gulf Coast terminals are a drive from our shops, not an ocean away. The people who build your crane commission and service it.
Engineered for the modern container yard
A rigid, stable steel structure for precise handling and smooth movement at speed, with AC frequency control on every motion and a self-powered trolley with integrated hoist for precise positioning.
- 41 or 51 metric-ton single lift under spreader
- 87-ft gantry span · 7 rows + truck lane · 1 over 6
- Automatic gantry steering, anti-sway and truck positioning
- Anti-collision and truck-lift prevention
- Siemens drives, controls and Crane Management System
Built in Belle Chasse & Broussard
135,000 sq ft of manufacturing space across two Louisiana facilities.
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