WATCH: Remotely Operated Crane Ops at Maasvlakte II
Check out this video of distant managed crane and cargo operations on the new APM Terminals Maasvlakte II terminal on the Port of Rotterdam.
Maasvlakte II is setting new requirements with the world’s first remotely operated ship-to-shore cranes. The facility options eight cab-less STS cranes that unload containers from vessels and locations them instantly onto automated, battery-powered Lift Automatic Guided Vehicles (Lift AGVs), which may transfer as much as two containers at a time from the jetty to the container yard utilizing an onboard navigation system.
Once the Lift AGV arrives at its programmed vacation spot, it locations the containers right into a collection of storage racks and an Automated Rail-Mounted Gantry crane (ARMG) then strikes the container from the rack to its subsequent designated location; be it a rail terminal, a ready truck or one other space of the storage yard.
What’s extra is that all the Maasvlakte II facility makes use of all-electric tools and is powered by renewable vitality, making it freed from all CO2, NOx and particulate emissions.
In October, the ability set a file for the port of Rotterdam when the operations group dealt with just below 1,000 containers throughout the 15 hour port name of the Triple-E containership Madison Maersk, which departed with 17,152 TEU together with ten excessive above deck.
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