Yet more shore power orders for Cavotec

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.

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

The ports authority of Sardinia has awarded an ad hoc joint venture of NIDEC ASI SpA and CEISIS SpA a contract worth €51.76M to provide onshore power at the six ports under its jurisdiction. Separately, a new conector could be a decisive step for onshore power in the Port of La Spezia