With the third and final wharf at Wando Welch Terminal now back in operation, the State Ports Authority is in the market for some new ship-to-shore cranes.
“We really want to be able to handle three 14,000 (container) ships at one time on that terminal,” said Jim Newsome, president and CEO of the authority that operates the Port of Charleston.
That’s something the 36-year-old terminal can’t do now, Newsome said, because it doesn’t have enough of the 155-foot-tall cranes that move cargo boxes on...