Early this year, Möbius Bau AG commissioned another P 995 Litronic Liebherr large excavator in Bremerhaven. The pontoon-mounted excavator weighs roughly 360 tonnes and is installed upon the stilt-mounted pontoon MP 40. General Director Werner Möbius launched the ship during a short ceremony. The expansion of the fleet puts Möbius in an excellent position to tackle the new challenges posed by hydraulic engineering, in particular in Northern Europe.
The MP 40 is an entirely new design of stilt-mounted pontoon. It is 60 m long, 18 m wide and has a height of 4 m. The P 995 Litronic installed upon it is the second mega-machine of its kind in Möbius' fleet. Another P 995 Litronic has already been proving its mettle as an economic and particularly powerful loading machine for hydraulic engineering since 2004.
As a first trial run, the new machine is to be employed in the planned Jade-Weser-Port in Wihelmshaven. This hydraulic engineering project – unique in its kind in Germany – requires the excavation of 4,000,000 m³ of highly compacted "Lauenburg" clay over a period of approximately two years. Thanks to the tremendous excavating forces and impressively rapid cycles, the combination of the MP 40 and the P 995 Litronic is predestined for this task.
The P 995 Litronic is powered by a 1,600 kW/2,140 hp MTU diesel engine. The MP 40's longest working attachment is a 16 m monobloc boom, an 11 m bucket stick and a backhoe bucket with a capacity of 11 m³. This combination of equipment can achieve a maximum excavation depth of 22.5 m, a ripper force of 657 kN and a breakout force of 774 kN.
