MARCO will supply a new deck crane for TIUNA purse seiner

A new MARCO deck crane is on its way to be installed on TIUNA purse seiner, hull no. 131 of the legendary Campbell shipyard. The equipment acquired by the TIUNA´s shipowner is a MARCO HDC10-4000AA deck crane with a load capacity of up to 4 tons at 10 meters. A Knuckle boom deck crane with its own hydraulic group, thus increasing operational flexibility and reducing the space to be occupied on deck.

MARCO deck cranes are specifically designed to operate in marine environments and seek to maximize operator safety thanks to the incorporation of different safety devices such as automatic fail-safe spring set hydraulic release disc brakes and counterbalance check valves.

Tiuna purse seiner, originally named as Tunamar, was built in the earlies eighties in United States´ Campbell shipyards. With a 12.19 meters beam and a vessel length of 66.40 meters, the vessel´s fish hold capacity is 1168 m3.

This contract highlights MARCO´s technology market leadership in Latin America, region where over the past years TH COMPANY has inaugurated different offices in Mexico, Ecuador and Peru to provide a closer and a better service to its customers.