The Port Cranes of America story
Port Cranes of America, LLC is a joint venture of Core Lifting, LLC and Stafford Crane Group, headquartered in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, building rubber-tired gantry cranes in the United States.
Crane builders since 1977
With associated companies Stafford Crane Group, Core Lifting and SEATRAX Marine, our combined organizations have manufactured and supplied marine and construction cranes worldwide since 1977.
Engineering
The Milano Total Crane Design Hub brings 40 years of senior design engineering on STS, RTG and RMG port cranes.
Electrification & automation
Through Siemens, a world leader in automation and digital integration with experience commissioning port cranes on several continents.
Manufacturing capacity
A network of manufacturing facilities and an experienced full-time workforce, able to run several large multiple-crane projects at once.
Key personnel
Patrick Stafford
Owner / PresidentTwenty-five years in the crane industry.
John Pfister
Director of New BusinessIn the offshore marine crane industry since 1989, across manufacturing, service and business development.
Matt Rollman
General ManagerCrane design and manufacturing since 2011, with a background in box girder fabrication, long-span systems and remote-control integration.
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