Felixstowe automation targets environmental footprint

Technology firm Siemens is to supply eight electrified automated rubber-tyred gantry cranes (ARTGs), as well as the electrical and automation systems and remote control systems for exception handling, to the UK’s Port of Felixstowe.

Mr Groenveld said that using digital twins of the cranes allows different simulations Photo: Siemens

Technology firm Siemens is to supply eight electrified automated rubber-tyred gantry cranes (ARTGs), as well as the electrical and automation systems and remote control systems for exception handling, to the UK’s Port of Felixstowe.