Europe Container Terminals in Rotterdam is replacing its first-generation automated guided vehicles nearly 20 years after pioneering the use of the equipment to shuttle containers between container cranes and stacking yards, the Journal of Commerce reported.
Europe Container Terminals in Rotterdam is replacing its first-generation automated guided vehicles nearly 20 years after pioneering the use the equipment to shuttle containers between container cranes and stacking yards.
Gottwald Port Technology GmbH, a subsidiary of Demag Cranes AG, is supplying ECT with 22 new automated vehicles. Gottwald also provided the terminal with its original AGVs, which were put into service in the early 1990s.
AGVs are driverless container-carrying wagons that are guided by remote control, using navigation software and electromagnetic transponders embedded into the terminal’s pavement.
The new models at ECT are equipped with fuel-saving diesel-electric drives and comply with
the European EuroMot IIIB exhaust standards that took effect this year.
Gottwald also has supplied AGVs to two other large European terminals, Euromax in Rotterdam and Altenwerder in Hamburg.
Harold Daggett, newly elected president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, has declared his opposition to the use of AGVs or similar technology in U.S. East and Gulf coast ports.
Europe Container Terminals in Rotterdam is replacing its first-generation automated guided vehicles nearly 20 years after pioneering the use the equipment to shuttle containers between container cranes and stacking yards.
Gottwald Port Technology GmbH, a subsidiary of Demag Cranes AG, is supplying ECT with 22 new automated vehicles. Gottwald also provided the terminal with its original AGVs, which were put into service in the early 1990s.
AGVs are driverless container-carrying wagons that are guided by remote control, using navigation software and electromagnetic transponders embedded into the terminal’s pavement.
The new models at ECT are equipped with fuel-saving diesel-electric drives and comply with
the European EuroMot IIIB exhaust standards that took effect this year.
Gottwald also has supplied AGVs to two other large European terminals, Euromax in Rotterdam and Altenwerder in Hamburg.
Harold Daggett, newly elected president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, has declared his opposition to the use of AGVs or similar technology in U.S. East and Gulf coast ports.