Cavotec inaugurates world-class manufacturing facility in Italy

Cavotec secures a US$ 5 million order for shore power units from a global shipping company, facilitating easy vessel connections to reduce port pollution.

The equipment will be deployed at ITC’s Somerton Intermodal Terminal, a multipurpose terminal currently being constructed in Melbourne, Victoria.

APM Terminals MedPort Tangier (APMT Tangier), which is a major customer of Cavotec’s automated mooring system, has concluded a deal that will see the group service all of its MoorMaster NxG units and Power Units at the facility.

Liebherr is to supply the Rijeka Gateway terminal in Croatia with 15 eRTGs and two eRMGs. All of the machines will be operated using the crane manufacturing company’s Remote Operator Stations (ROS).

Cavotec, the Lugano (Switzerland)-based electrification solutions company that aims to help ports and industrial sites decarbonise, has signed a new contract with an existing customer, but undisclosed European-headquartered container shipping company, to retrofit more of its vessels with equipment that will enable it to use shore power-based solutions.

Cemex and its partners have been awarded a grant of nearly £1.7M by the UK Department for Transport for the next stage of development of a shore power system for use by its marine aggregates discharge ships