{"id":10304,"date":"2016-10-30T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/10\/30\/apmt-adds-automated-cranes-to-tangier-port\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:58:10","slug":"apmt-adds-automated-cranes-to-tangier-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/apmt-adds-automated-cranes-to-tangier-port\/","title":{"rendered":"APMT adds automated cranes to Tangier port"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Opening in 2019, the new container terminal will employ both conventional and fully-automated operations, as well as a truck gate system. It will have a total quay length of up to 2 km, and increase the Tangier-Med complex\u2019s overall capacity to more than 9m teu.<\/p>\n<p>The STS cranes will be delivered at the end of 2017 by Shanghai-based ZPMC. They feature full automation (with the remote crane operators to be located in an office building close to the quay), a second trolley and optical character recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>The ARMGs will also be delivered at the end of 2017 and will come from Australian-based Kunz. They will be deployed in 16 container yard blocks, each serviced by two ARMGs.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Olesen, APM Terminals MedPort Tangier\u2019s managing director, said: \u201cOur goal is to use proven technology to create high-productivity for our clients on one of the world\u2019s most strategically important trade lanes on the Strait of Gibraltar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APM Terminals has announced orders for 12 remote-controlled ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and 32 automated rail-mounted gantry cranes (ARMGs) to equip its new 5m teu MedPort Tangier facility, currently under construction at the Tangier-Med II port complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10304"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}