Renewable energy market drives new equipment designs

Kalmar Corporation has partnered with CES Srl to globally distribute and service CES reach stackers over 125 tonnes.

The big cargo handling equipment manufacturers are pushing ahead with fully electric mobile machines, but demand is still in its early stages, and not every manufacturer is ready to join the party just yet.

Despite aiming for low emissions, the Port of Oswego Authority seeks proposals for a traditional 50-ton, 50-foot reach stacker for its port.

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

Kalmar, which is part of Finland’s Cargotec group is to supply Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam with two fully electric and eight hybrid straddle carriers. The machines will be used in the company’s ECT Delta terminal and be delivered by the end of this year.