The new order comes on top of Kalmar’s biggest European order ever when MSC ordered 10 cranes last year. The new order, due for delivery in 2006, has been placed in response to anticipated volume growth at Belgium’s leading container port.
The first of the 10 cranes ordered last year has recently become operational while a further three on the site are in various stages of assembly.
The latest order brings to 33 the number of STS cranes currently on Kalmar’s books. This total also includes eight cranes for PSA Antwerp, six for P&O Ports’ Antwerp Gateway, two for Rotterdam Shortsea Terminals and two for the Port of Guadeloupe.
Kalmar’s latest STS design has an outreach of 56m and a safe working load of 80 tons on the ropes and 65 tons under the spreader.
In order to deliver an extremely high order backlog in a short time frame, Kalmar has forged an essential partnership with Dutch steel structure manufacturer Hollandia, which gives the flexibility to meet both current demand and also to adapt capacity when the market returns to more normal levels.
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