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Two new giant cranes at the Port of Cork that tower over the new Ringaskiddy container terminal have yet to be named.

And now Port of Cork are calling on schoolkids from all around Cork Harbour to come up with their best suggestions as they launch the 'Name The Cranes' competition.

Cork hurling star Patrick Horgan joined local schoolkids and reps from the Port of Cork Company to help launch the search for names for the mighty ship-to-shore cranes which dominate the skyline, standing at over 50 metres tall at the new container facility in Ringaskiddy.

The new cranes and the giant terminal at Ringaskiddy will be officially opened later this year. But to find out more on how to join in the fun and name those cranes, you can visit the Port of Cork facebook page.

Cork Beo has more on the competition to name the giant ship to shore (STS) container gantry cranes. 

Published in Port of Cork

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago