{"id":3348,"date":"2023-05-17T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2023\/05\/17\/electric-reachstacker-handover-first-for-kalmar\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:03:59","slug":"electric-reachstacker-handover-first-for-kalmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/products-services-greenport\/electric-reachstacker-handover-first-for-kalmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric reachstacker handover first for Kalmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a six-month trial period, the reachstacker will now continue operations at Cabooter Group\u2019s Greenport Venlo intermodal terminal in the south east of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our focus firmly on improving the sustainability of our operations, reducing the noise and airborne emissions that our equipment generates is a must,\u201d said&nbsp;Hans Cabooter, president and CEO, Cabooter Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe goal we set when we first signed the agreement to collaborate with Kalmar on this eco-efficient solution in 2019 has not changed: We want to become the industry leader in airborne emission and noise reduction in partnership with Kalmar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco hero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since its founding in 1995, Cabooter Group has grown to become a global logistics provider and one of the leading logistics hub operators in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The company is already benefiting from lower fuel costs and reduced emissions thanks to five Kalmar Eco reachstackers deployed at Venlo and at the company\u2019s Kaldenkirchen terminal in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Cabooter Group signed an agreement to become the pilot customer for the Kalmar electric reachstacker during the product\u2019s initial development phase.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the handover ceremony, Cabooter Group was presented with the Kalmar Eco Hero Award in recognition of its commitment to adopting sustainable electrically powered equipment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Kalmar electric reachstacker, which offers lifting capacities of up to 45 tonnes, improves the eco-efficiency of cargo-handling operations while allowing customers to maintain the highest levels of productivity and safety. The reachstacker is available with a range of modular battery options and charging solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalmar has handed over its first fully electric reachstacker to Cabooter Group which will use it to further\u00a0increase the sustainability of its operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1038,302,1037,130,233,145,23,71],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services-greenport","tag-cabooter-group","tag-cargo-handling","tag-electric-reachstacker","tag-emissions","tag-kalmar","tag-logistics","tag-port-equipment","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","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=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}