Here is your roundup of the latest coverage for ports and container handling published in Forkliftaction News in September and October, from manufacturer milestones and major port equipment orders to developments in hydrogen power and hybridised container handling.

In October - The Port of Haiphong in northern Vietnam orders 30 cargo handling cranes from Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding for a new container terminal.

Hyster celebrates the 70th birthday of its big truck factory in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The R&D centre has a focus on supporting the transition to zero-emission port equipment, as well as leveraging lithium-ion battery and hydrogen fuel cell technologies.

APM Terminals Liberia adds two Liebherr 600 mobile harbour cranes to the Freeport of Monrovia in West Africa, which has recently completed dredging to allow larger vessels to dock.

Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals (RST) orders six Kalmar hybrid straddle carriers to be delivered in the second quarter of 2024.

The Port of Limburg, an inland container terminal due to begin operations in 2025, orders two Kuenz rail-mounted gantry cranes (RMGs).

Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) takes delivery of two new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes as part of a AUD235 million expansion project.

In September - Mineral sands miner Tronox takes delivery of a second Rotainer Eurospec 38RS manufactured by Sydney-based Container Rotation Systems (CRS).

Construction of a new remote-controlled container terminal is underway at the Port of Rijeka in Croatia.

Port Houston continues to hybridise container handling at its Barbours Cut and Bayport operations with the addition of five Konecranes hybrid rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes.

Corvus Energy to supply the battery energy storage system component of a hydrogen fuel cell rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) crane that’s set to be the first RTG crane powered by both a fuel cell and a battery energy storage system in the Americas.

Work is underway on a new multimodal port, which will expand the capacity of the containerised freight route known as the Middle Corridor, in Georgia.

The Port of Abidjan’s second container terminal has added five new gantry cranes to its operations. 

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