The port of Grangemouth in Scotland has taken delivery of five Kalmar straddle carriers as part of a multi-million-pound investment in its terminal equipment.
The ESC 440 diesel-electric straddle carriers were manufactured in the port of Gdynia, Poland and shipped to the UK on the general cargo vessel Taiga Desgagnes.
The units will be put into operation at the port’s container terminal in March.
A video of the offloading operations can be seen here.
Dortmund-based heavy transport provider August Alborn has purchased two EuroCompact lowbed semi-trailers from TII Scheuerle.
Mammoet is deploying its 3,200-tonne capacity PTC210-DS ring crane to lift a huge A-frame for Van Oord’s installation vessel Svanen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
UK-based lifting solutions and equipment provider Southern Cranes has purchased 10 Grove all-terrain cranes from Manitowoc as it updates its fleet.
On behalf of XD‐EGEMAC, Egyptian Global Logistics (EGL) transported three 135-tonne transformers for the El-Eqtsadia substation.
Greece-headquartered Cosmatos Shipping Services has delivered transformer sets and their accessories from Thessaloniki port.
Trans Global Projects (TGP) has coordinated the transport of six sets of wind turbines from China to Vietnam on two chartered vessels.
