Project record

Port of Felixstowe four ship-to-shore quay cranes

Participation
Awarded
Participation checked

Find a Tender records an active award to ZPMC for four STS cranes at GBP 43.594 million excluding VAT; actual contract signature, manufacture, shipment, commissioning and acceptance remain unconfirmed

Participation source

The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company awarded TC01361 to Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for four ship-to-shore quay cranes. Notice 060700-2025 reports an active GBP 43,594,074 excluding-VAT award and GBP 52,312,888 including VAT, against a GBP 52 million excluding-VAT tender estimate. The planned 3 October 2025 signature and 1 October 2027 end remain scheduling fields. Wheel-load, outreach, lift-height and capacity requirements govern the equipment design; signed terms and physical delivery remain unconfirmed.

Port of Felixstowe ship-to-shore cranes at a container terminal across Harwich Haven, providing operating context for the four-crane award

Harwich Haven Authority; current Port of Felixstowe operating context, not evidence of TC01361 manufacture, delivery, erection or commissioning

Location

United Kingdom / Europe

Segment

Container-terminal handling equipment

Phase

Award / Confirmed

Last checked

14 October 2026

Coverage

Related sectors

Container-terminal handling equipment is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.

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Project anatomy

Contract scope and delivery roles

Client / authority
The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company - private utility buyer and Port of Felixstowe operator
Procurement references
TC01361; ocds-h6vhtk-0584a1; 047444-2025; 047746-2025; 047751-2025; 060700-2025
Delivery parties
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (ZPMC) - selected supplier for four ship-to-shore quay cranes, Independent design checker, shipping carrier, erection contractor, electrical and controls integrator, commissioning team and local support lower tiers - no organization disclosed
Contract route
Reference TC01361, OCID ocds-h6vhtk-0584a1. UK4 047444-2025 opened the competition on 8 August 2025; corrections 047746-2025 and 047751-2025 followed on 11 August, with a final 5 September submission deadline. Stage 1 required recent operating-terminal supply, compliant design and normal and storm wheel-load calculations on a pass/fail basis. Stage 2 weighted cost 60%, delivery 20%, sustainability 10%, and specification or contract deviations 10%. UK6 060700-2025 published ZPMC's active award on 29 September. Its 3 October signature milestone remains scheduled; the reviewed family contains no signed-contract object.
Execution window
The award notice gives a planned period from 3 October 2025 to 1 October 2027. Earlier tender notices carried shorter planned periods and extension allowances for production or shipping delay. The latest award period is a planning baseline, not evidence of signature, factory release, shipment, arrival, erection, commissioning, final acceptance or operation.
Works package
Design, manufacture and delivery to the Port of Felixstowe of four ship-to-shore quay cranes for ISO containers and other defined loads. The published competition stresses strict wheel-load limits, required outreach, lift height and capacity, independent third-party analysis readiness, maintenance planning for up to four million cycles, spare-parts support, performance monitoring and lifecycle sustainability. Detailed dimensions, rated capacities, berth allocation and included installation scope are not public in the cited notices.
Marine interfaces
The crane design must reconcile outreach, lift height, rail gauge, storm restraint, normal and storm wheel loads, berth geometry, vessel envelope, quay structural capacity, electrical supply, controls, communications, access and operating-terminal phasing. Shipping, berth-side assembly, rail and buffer interfaces, load testing and handover are material but unallocated in the public award record.
Commercial evidence boundary
The selected price is GBP 43,594,074 excluding VAT and GBP 52,312,888 including VAT, about GBP 8.406 million below the GBP 52 million excluding-VAT tender estimate. That difference is procurement context, not a saving until the contract is signed and scope equivalence is established. The total is not a per-crane installed rate, paid amount or final account; options, deviations, civil interfaces, local erection, spares, maintenance, variations and payment status remain undisclosed.

Contract and delivery chain

Work packages and named roles

Published scope, named parties and supporting evidence for each workstream.

Supplier selection

Four ship-to-shore quay cranes

Named party
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
Evidence status
Confirmed
Source position
Find a Tender notice 060700-2025 names ZPMC as supplier for TC01361. Source
Commercial baseline

Four-crane goods award

Named party
The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company and ZPMC
Evidence status
Confirmed
Source position
The award notice records GBP 43,594,074 excluding VAT and GBP 52,312,888 including VAT against a GBP 52 million excluding-VAT tender estimate. Source
Technical competition

Compliant STS design and lifecycle support

Named party
The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company and tenderers
Evidence status
Confirmed
Source position
The tender requires compliant outreach, lift height, capacity and wheel loads, design calculations ready for independent analysis, maintenance planning up to four million cycles and spare-parts support. Source
Contract execution

TC01361 signature and notice to proceed

Named party
The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company and ZPMC
Evidence status
Not evidenced
Source position
The official history records an active award and a scheduled 3 October 2025 signature milestone. An actual signed-contract object remains absent from the reviewed family. Source
Physical delivery and closeout

Manufacture, shipment, erection, commissioning and acceptance

Named party
ZPMC and undisclosed delivery-chain parties
Evidence status
Not evidenced
Source position
No cited public record confirms factory release, shipment, arrival, erection, load testing, final acceptance, operation or final account.

Project timeline

Material developments

Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.

Open this project in the Change Log

ZPMC selected for the four-crane package

The notice names ZPMC as the active award supplier at GBP 43.594 million excluding VAT. The scheduled signature milestone and planned period leave contract execution and delivery unconfirmed.

Source

Tender documents and submission rules updated

The buyer updated the technical specification and form of tender, extended submission to 5 September and confirmed electronic submissions.

Source

Open four-crane competition launched

The initial tender established four cranes, a GBP 52 million excluding-VAT estimate, strict wheel-load constraints and a two-stage technical and commercial assessment.

Source

Evidence gap

What remains unverified

Outstanding evidence

  • Signed contract or later UK7 contract-details notice
  • Detailed outreach, lift height, rated load, rail gauge and wheel-load limits
  • Berth allocation and quay structural verification
  • Independent design review and factory design approval
  • Factory production, inspection and shipping milestones
  • Named heavy-lift vessel, transport and berth-side erection parties
  • Electrical, controls, communications and terminal-system integration
  • Load testing, commissioning, final acceptance and operational handover
  • Options, deviations, variations, paid value and final account

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Reporting status

Project phase
Award
Evidence confidence
Confirmed
Last checked
14 October 2026
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