The 1,000th diesel-electric Terex straddle carrier at the celebrations on 11 July in the Terex Port Solutions facility in Würzburg.

Terex Port Solutions (TPS) in Würzburg has delivered its 1,000th diesel-electric straddle carrier to longtime customer North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven GmbH & Co (NTB).

The delivery of the machine was marked by a ceremony attended by NTB and the Terex team members who built the machine.

NTB's total order comprised more than 30 Terex N SC 644 E straddle carriers. The machines feature a lifting capacity of up to 60 T under spreader and can stack 9 ft. 6 in. (2.8 m) high cube containers one-over-three. They will be used in the NTB terminal located directly on the North Sea, and will support an existing large fleet of over 75 Terex straddle carriers.

Since 1999, NTB has used Terex straddle carriers in its terminal, which handled approximately 3.3 million TEUs in 2013.

Jan Gelderland, managing director of NTB, said at the ceremony: "These highly efficient straddle carriers have supported us in the terminal, founded in 1998, almost from the start. And thanks to their ease of operation, good performance and reliability, they provide lasting competitive advantages. We are therefore delighted to welcome a genuine landmark machine from Würzburg to our fleet."

Straddle carriers have been manufactured in Würzburg since 1968. Lutz Waechter, general manager of the TPS location, said during the handover: "The first units, at the time still operated with diesel-mechanical drives, came onto the market under the brand name Peiner. The machines were later sold globally under the Noell brand and now Terex."

About 2,600 straddle carriers and sprinter carriers, the latter used solely for transporting containers to the stackyard, have left the Franconian plant.

The plant in Würzburg became part of Terex in 2009 and later joined Terex Port Solutions when it was formed in 2012, following the acquisition of Gottwald Port Technology.

The value of the order is confidential.

Terex Port Solutions is part of the Material Handling & Port Solutions business segment of Terex Corporation that supplies customers in ports with machines, software and services under the Terex and Terex Gottwald brands.