Aiming to further shape the future of automated port terminals, Kalmar has acquired Advanced Cargo Transhipment BV (ACT). The Netherlands-based company, a former business unit of Frog Navigation, will assist Kalmar in its strategy to be the preferred supplier of integrated automation technology by increasing its resources in automated horizontal transportation R&D and delivery projects. The parties have agreed not to disclose the transaction value. Jorma Tirkkonen, President of Kalmar Intelligence & Automation (KIA), comments on the acquisition: “ACT’s innovative, ‘hi-tech’ team is a great addition to KIA, improving further our capabilities to automate container handling equipment and terminals. We are now even better prepared to face the rapidly increasing interest and demand for these solutions.”
ACT, a spin-off company of Frog Navigation based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is an expert in developing and marketing equipment navigation control and terminal operation control hardware and software for complex logistics systems and processes using automated vehicles and equipment. Applications, for example, include straddle carriers, shuttle carriers and automated guided vehicles as well as traffic management and control systems.
ACT will be integrated into Kalmar’s dedicated business unit, Kalmar Intelligence & Automation, which focuses on the marketing and development of onboard smart features for container handling equipment, integrated control systems and remote maintenance products in cooperation with customers and partners. The unit also runs a state-of-the-art automation test facility to better aid the integration of its intelligent applications with its customers’ container handling equipment and terminal operating systems.
Kalmar has delivered and now supports a fleet of close to 1,000 applications such as container verification, positioning and monitoring systems, remote service monitoring software, and reporting systems.
Kalmar’s range of innovative onboard products and automated systems today includes:
* Fleetview: a real-time monitoring system that optimises the deployment of container yard equipment.
* Smartrail®: an autosteering and container position verification system for RTGs.
* Smartpath®: a container position verification system for straddle carriers and RTGs.
* Remote Machine Interface (RMI): a tool for remote machine monitoring, maintenance tasking and reporting suitable for use with all Kalmar equipment.
* Automatic stacking cranes (ASC): an automated handling solution providing high productivity and stacking density for large terminals. Sophisticated measuring, positioning and supervisory control systems with safety, redundancy and fault reporting.
* Autostrad: unmanned straddle carrier handling system.
ACT, a spin-off company of Frog Navigation based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is an expert in developing and marketing equipment navigation control and terminal operation control hardware and software for complex logistics systems and processes using automated vehicles and equipment. Applications, for example, include straddle carriers, shuttle carriers and automated guided vehicles as well as traffic management and control systems.
ACT will be integrated into Kalmar’s dedicated business unit, Kalmar Intelligence & Automation, which focuses on the marketing and development of onboard smart features for container handling equipment, integrated control systems and remote maintenance products in cooperation with customers and partners. The unit also runs a state-of-the-art automation test facility to better aid the integration of its intelligent applications with its customers’ container handling equipment and terminal operating systems.
Kalmar has delivered and now supports a fleet of close to 1,000 applications such as container verification, positioning and monitoring systems, remote service monitoring software, and reporting systems.
Kalmar’s range of innovative onboard products and automated systems today includes:
* Fleetview: a real-time monitoring system that optimises the deployment of container yard equipment.
* Smartrail®: an autosteering and container position verification system for RTGs.
* Smartpath®: a container position verification system for straddle carriers and RTGs.
* Remote Machine Interface (RMI): a tool for remote machine monitoring, maintenance tasking and reporting suitable for use with all Kalmar equipment.
* Automatic stacking cranes (ASC): an automated handling solution providing high productivity and stacking density for large terminals. Sophisticated measuring, positioning and supervisory control systems with safety, redundancy and fault reporting.
* Autostrad: unmanned straddle carrier handling system.