Volvo Penta expands into battery storage

Partnership brings an autonomous vehicle specialist together with a robotic charging technology supplier.

French battery start-up company WATTALPS has raised €11 million in Series A funding to further develop its modular and high-performance lithium-ion batteries featuring patented immersion cooling technology.

New E-COOLPAC can be used with truck, trailers and reefer containers in place of industry standard diesel gensets.

MOL and Volvo Penta are collaborating on trials for an electric 4X4 RoRo tractor, the RME225, at DFDS’s facilities at the Port of Ghent.

The Port of Salalah has taken delivery of the first four cranes in a series of 10 super-post panamax STS cranes being manufactured by ZPMC. The remaining cranes will arrive at Oman’s largest container port in Q2 2024 with all units fully commissioned in the third quarter of the year.

As part of an Executive Order aimed at strengthening maritime cyber-security, the Biden Administration plans to invest over US$20B over the next five years in port infrastructure including funds for recreating the domestic port crane industry