There are three more units already under erection at the same terminal that will be ready for commissioning by mid-March. The cranes have been designed with the latest new design technology based on fuel-saving concept by means of a new diesel generator and by using electrical motors instead of hydraulics.

Main features are as follows,

Rated load: 40 t under spreader

Legs clearance: 22.10 m // Height under spreader: 18.10 m // Trolley travel: 18.30 m // Hoisting speed with load: 26 m/min – empty: 52 m/min //

Trolley travel speed: 70 m/min // Gantry travel speed: 130 m/min

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company and ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd are pleased to announce that Starting mid-February 2013, a new and improved Med-Europe service will commence operation on the following rotation:

Felixtowe – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Antwerp – Le Havre  – Ashdod – Alexandria – Haifa – Ashdod – Valencia – Felixtowe

The new Service will operate 5X5,500-6000 TEU’s vessel with a roundtrip of 35 days, allowing customers an improved port coverage, including major North European ports, with competitive transit times and enhanced schedule reliability.

The order is part of ECT’s investment programme, which aims at further modernising its Delta Terminal at Maasvlakte in Rotterdam. The cranes will be delivered during 2014 and they will replace part of the existing automatic stacking cranes that have been in operation since the early 1990s. The order has been booked into Cargotec’s 2013 first quarter order intake.

“This order builds on the long-term partnership between the companies as well as on the decades of Kalmar automated container handling expertise. The crane design has evolved a lot over the years and the latest models will be fitted with the most advanced technological solutions, electrical system and design features that will make the cranes even more reliable, productive and environmentally friendly,” says Rene Kleiss, Vice President at Kalmar.

ECT Delta Terminal is the first fully automated terminal in the world. Over the past 25 years Kalmar and Nelcon, a company acquired by Kalmar in 2001, have delivered over 100 automatic stacking cranes to ECT.

The primary purpose of the project is to provide a comprehensive picture of the maritime traffic to all interested parties, which will help to forecast dangers and risks related to the marine pollution.

Transas standalone AIS solution incorporates the latest VTS technology and meets all international standards. At the core of the system is Transas AIS Base station T214, state-of-the art solution designed specifically for coastal surveillance, vessel traffic monitoring and ports management.

Intended to cover Aqaba Port, its inner port waters, navigational channels and fairways, this effective solution will significantly contribute to the prevention of marine pollution, improvement of safety navigation and overall security of the port.

In addition, Transas supplied and commissioned AIS VTS Server, WEB server and related hardware equipment to the Jordan Maritime Authority financed by the EU-funded SafeMed II regional project. This project is implemented in the Mediterranean region by the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) on behalf of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

The Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea is based in Malta and assists the Mediterranean coastal States in ratifying, transposing, implementing and enforcing international maritime conventions related to the prevention of and response to marine pollution from ships.