Maher Terminals equips its straddle carrier fleet with Kalmar's positioning systems

Maher Terminals in the Port of New York/New Jersey recently outfitted its entire straddle carrier fleet with Kalmar's Smartpath®, a container position verification system, and Fleetview, a system for monitoring and coordinating container handling equipment. The installation, which was finalised in May 2007, involved 183 straddle carriers. Maher Terminals is Kalmar's largest global straddle carrier customer.

Smartpath® - designed for straddle carriers and rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes - can be incorporated into all leading yard planning and equipment control systems. As a completely integrated technology, the straddle carrier driver receives instructions for his next task from a digital monitor installed in his cabin, which exchanges information with the yard management system. There is no manual input and thus no opportunity for mistakes and misplaced containers.

Fleetview, Kalmar's newest automation software, offers control room operators improved management and coordination of large equipment fleet handling. Fleetview optimises the usage of the fleet and minimises travel without a container, providing significant improvements in productivity.

Kalmar's other innovative onboard products and automated systems today include:

» Smartrail®: an autosteering and container position verification system for RTGs.
» Remote Machine Interface (RMI): a tool for remote machine monitoring, maintenance tasking and reporting, suitable for use with all Kalmar equipment.
» Automatic stacking cranes (ASC): an automated handling solution providing high productivity and stacking density for large terminals.

-ends-

Notes to editor:
Press information can be found on Kalmar's website: www.kalmarind.com. Simply click on News Room to be taken to a list of recent press releases. A photograph to accompany this release is also available on the Kalmar website, by clicking on Press Pictures. The caption for the photograph reads:

Maher Terminals in the Port of New York/New Jersey has opted to outfit its entire straddle carrier fleet with Kalmar's container positioning verification system, Smartpath, and the latest addition to Kalmar's suite of automation products, the Fleetview monitoring software.

Fleetview visualises a terminal's handling equipment fleet for optimised operational management.

Kalmar is a global provider of container and heavy duty materials handling equipment, automation applications and related services. It is the world's leading supplier of cargo handling equipment to ports, terminals and intermodal facilities.

Every fourth container or trailer transfer at terminals around the world is handled by a Kalmar machine. The company also supplies a wide range of machines to demanding industrial customers for applications as diverse as handling steel and paper to shunting road trailers at distribution hubs.

Kalmar is also leading the way in port automation applications with its application of unmanned container handling technology, on-board smart features and remote maintenance products developed in co-operation with customers and partners.

Kalmar's product range is complemented by a large range of value added services such as maintenance contracts and fleet management. Production plants are situated in Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Malaysia, China and the USA. Kalmar's net sales were EUR 1.2 billion in 2006.

Kalmar is part of Cargotec Corporation, the world's leading provider of cargo handling solutions, which are used in local transportation, terminals, ports, distribution centres, and ships. In 2006 Cargotec's net sales were EUR 2.6 billion. Cargotec's class B shares are listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.