Kalmar STS crane being delivered to Port of Vuosaari

Cargotec's Kalmar division has been awarded its largest ship-to-shore (STS) maintenance contract for equipment at the Port of Vuosaari.

The company will service Finnish port operators Finnsteve and Steveco, both long-term partners. The full-service contract for Finnsteve includes full maintenance, repairs and spare parts for four Kalmar STS cranes. Steveco has commissioned Kalmar to provide maintenance for straddle carriers, terminal tractors and reach stackers.

The contract also includes the provision of a team of four on-site Kalmar experts.

Kalmar recently delivered four new STS cranes and nine other new container-handling machines to the port. Two existing smaller Helsinki ports and Port of Kotka are moving a number of Kalmar machines to Vuosaari, and the operating activities of the smaller ports will also be transferred there by the end of 2008.

The new equipment joins the other Kalmar machines at the port ( Forkliftaction.com News #372), bringing the total fleet of Kalmar machines to 240.

Kalmar also supplied three shuttle carriers, two electric straddle carriers, three EC DRT100 empty container stackers and one terminal tractor.

The port at Vuosaari will be completed in 2009 and will serve as Finland's main gateway for unitised cargo.