APM Terminals Rotterdam Maasvlakte II has selected 26 automated rail mounted gantry (ARMG) cranes and two rail cranes from the Austrian crane manufacturer Kuenz, ahead of the container terminal's launch in November 2014.
'We’re designing the terminal of the future to serve the ships of the future,' said Frank Tazelaar, managing director of APM Terminals Maasvlakte II. 'Our customers expect the highest standards in safety, productivity, innovation, automation and eco-friendliness.
'These ARMGs will be the high performance workhorses of the terminal - capable of supporting the scale of container stack activity associated with multiple large container ships in port,' Tazelaar added. 'Equally important, the ARMGs are good news for shippers and truckers due to their safety and efficiency.'
The ARMGs will use a fully automated system to safely load/unload a container on a truck chassis. Truck drivers will park their truck in a designated spot, exit their cab and wait in a secure area away from the auto-loading/unloading process.
Kuenz, based in Hard, Austria, is an industry leader in intermodal cranes and stacking cranes and will deliver the equipment in 2013 and 2014.
