Port hands over headaches

The port is buying the capacity it needs from Kalmar on a ‘per-hour’ basis, equivalent to seven DRF100 reachstackers. This means that responsibility for securing handling equipment falls on Kalmar, rather than the port.

The reachstackers will be supplied with Kalmar’s Remote Monitoring Interface (RMI), a system that enables the operation of a large number of machines to be monitored by a single operator in the terminal control room.

Meanwhile, Total Soft Bank is to draw up a contract with the Port of Gothenburg to implement CATOS, an all-in-one terminal operation system with the capability of interfacing with external systems.

Gothenburg is the only Swedish port catering for ocean-going vessels. Throughput rose 4% last year to 841,000 teu.