MSC boosts Kalmar STS order
Kalmar has received an order for five additional super postPanamax STS cranes from MSC Home Terminal, Antwerp on top of the ten cranes ordered last year (the biggest European STS order ever). The new order, due for delivery in 2006, has been placed in response to anticipated future volume growth. MSC Home Terminal is a joint venture between MSC and Hesse-Noord Natie, a subsidiary of the PSA Group.
The first of the company’s ten STS cranes ordered last year has recently entered commercial operations, while a further three are on site and in various stages of assembly.
The latest order brings to 33 the number of STS cranes currently on Kalmar’s books.
This total also includes eight cranes for PSA Antwerp, six for P&O Ports’ Antwerp Gateway, two for Rotterdam Shortsea Terminals and two for the Port of Guadeloupe.
Kalmar’s president and CEO, Christer Granskog, cooments: “In order to be able to deliver this extremely high order backlog in a short time frame our partnership with Hollandia – the Dutch steel structure manufacturer – is essential. It gives us the necessary upwards flexibility to meet this exceptionally high level of demand, but also gives us flexibility to adapt our capacity when the market returns to more normal levels.”
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