Oslo Opts for Quiet, Clean Cranes

The Port of Oslo is undergoing development to increase its capacity and specifically requested electrically powered rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) rather than diesel powered because it is located in the heart of the city close to residential and leisure areas and it wanted to keep the environmental impacts (noise and pollution) of the new machines to a bare minimum.

Pictured in Singapore is a diesel powered 7+1 high RTG with a similar span to the four 9+1 wide, electrically powered machines being supplied to Oslo Port Authority.

The Port of Oslo is undergoing development to increase its capacity and specifically requested electrically powered rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) rather than diesel powered because it is located in the heart of the city close to residential and leisure areas and it wanted to keep the environmental impacts (noise and pollution) of the new machines to a bare minimum.