PTP orders 48 eRTGs

News 5 Jan 2024 by WCN Editorial

Port Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) has signed an agreement with Mitsui E&S for 48 electric rubber tyred gantry cranes.

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At the signing ceremony were Marco Neelsen, CEO, PTP and Atsufumi Takahashi, Mitsui’s general manager of Sales Department, Logistics Systems Division. The new eRTGs will help to drive PTP’s decarbonisation efforts © PTP_signing_rt.jpg

The deal was cemented at a signing ceremony at PTP in December. In attendance were PTP’s CEO Marco Neelsen (five from the left) and Mitsui’s general manager of Sales Department, Logistics Systems Division, Atsufumi Takahashi (six from the left).

The RTGs, which will be able to stack one over five high cube containers and span seven rows, will be powered by an electrical busbar . This means that during stacking activities they will be connected to the main grid. When travelling between container blocks they will use their own battery.

Delivery of the new equipment will commence in Q3 2025 and be completed in six batches (each of eight machines) by Q2 2026. It forms an essential part of PTP’s modernisation, capacity expansion and emissions reduction programmes. PTP aims to cut its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030.

According to PTP, the new machines will replace some older conventionally powered RTGs and meet the needs of the port’s growing traffic base.

PTP is a joint venture between Malaysia’s MMC Group and APM Terminals.