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the 2008 operating profit margin,
Kalmar to concentrate lift
not counting the restructuring
costs, will be 5.7%, compared to
...launches new
the 01-09/08 forecast of 6.3%, as
a result of Kalmar’s margin for the
truck assembly at Lidhult...
whole year falling below 6%.
Kalmar’s operating profit dur-
terminal tractor
ing 4Q/08 was affected by inven-
Cargotec has announced a phased Tampere (Kalmar) to market con- changes to the size of MacGregor tory revaluations, additional pro-
shutdown of Kalmar lift truck as- ditions. were envisaged, but Cargotec visions regarding deliveries as well
sembly operations at Ljungby and The measures are in reponse Sweden AB has absorbed as earlier unforeseen costs realised
its transfer to the nearby Lidhult to “uncertainty of the global ma- MacGregor Bulk AB (formerly during the quarter.
plant, together with R&D, tech- terials handling market and de- BMH). Henceforth MacGregor Cargotec’s overall sales for
nology, sales, sourcing and logis- cline in demand,” said Cargotec. Bulk will be a brand name of 2008 will be around E3.4B, in
tics. Only service operations, fi- Because of the way Finnish Cargotec Sweden. The Nord- line with the earlier forecast of
nance and accounting will remain industrial relations laws are ströms brand name that 13% growth year on year, with
in Ljungby. framed, the statement reads much MacGregor acquired as part of orders received in 2008 amount-
The transfer will start during more alarmingly than is really the the BMH purchase is being ing to €3.8B.
April/May and should be com- case, as statutory periods for ne- dropped, although the Siwertell a71 Kalmar has reported an order
pleted by the end of this year. gotiations have to be based on brand name is being retained. for four more E-One+ RTGs
Most of the 175 personnel af- worst case scenarios. Some tem- Cargotec has also merged the from Port of Livorno operator
fected by the move will be of- porary layoffs (unpaid leave) are UK sales and service operations Terminal Darsena Toscana (TDT),
fered the chance to relocate. planned at both factories, as well for Hiab and Moffett Truck part of Contship Italia SpA. TDT
The transfer will cost around as some permanent job savings at Mounted Forklift into Hiab. The ordered two RTGs in 2Q/08 and
€4M and is expcetd to generate Tampere. goal is to have one company, these were delivered at the end
€2M in annual savings. In addi- “Some big port projects have Cargotec Ltd, providing central- of 2008. The latter four, slated for
tion, €3M will be invested at been postponed and we have to ised back-office functions and delivery this summer, were or-
Lidhult to accommodate the new be prepared for that” said Jorma “more integrated sales organisa- dered in 3Q/08, but Kalmar has
products (mainly medium FLTs). Tirrkonen, Kalmar’s director of tions” for Hiab, Moffett Kalmar not previously disclosed that the
Cargotec also announced a container crane systems. and McGregor products. customer for them is TDT. All six Kalmar has launched the TT616i, The new tractor has a fifth wheel lift
new round of workforce nego- The new measures are on top Cargotec’s full 2008 results are machines will be fitted with a new 4x2 terminal tractor aimed
capacity of up to 36t
tiations in Finland aimed at ad- of those previously announced by not due to be published until next Kalmar’s Smartrail autosteering at lo-lo port operations in Europe.
justing production capacity at Cargotec (see last month’s month, but the Finnish engineer- and container position verifica- With this machine it hopes to engine as well as an elevating lift
Raisio (Multilift/Hiab) and WorldCargo News, p25). No ing group has already stated that tion systems. emulate the success it has had boom with 36t capacity.
with the TR618i/TRL618i and The construction is based on
the TT612d models in the ro-ro/ the TR618i series, so is very ro-
heavy industrial and distribution/ bust and has similar hydraulics. The
“spotter” tractor markets respec- frame is the same for LH- and
tively. RH-drive models - the first time
Test units have been in opera- that Kalmar has achieved this. A
tion for several months in ports choice of three different rear axle
in England and Holland and inital ratios is available.
feedback has been very encour- The independently ROPS-
aging, says Timo Matikainen, certified cab has an interior noise
Kalmar’s director, heavy terminal level of no more than 75 dBa at
tractors. maximum rpm. There are no A-
The TT616i can be custom- pillars in the front corners, greatly
ised to very specific operations, improving the driver’s field of vi-
with, for example, “silent drive” sion. There is a tall cab option (ex-
(low rpms) and “eco-drive” op- tra 200mm interior height) that
tions, and it can be fitted with a many drivers in container opera-
one-touch “pick and drop” func- tions prefer as it gives them an
tion that automatically adjusts the earlier sight, through the glass of
raise and/or lower height of the the roof and rear door, of the con-
fifth wheel to pre-set levels. Fully tainer being landed on the trailer.
adjustable steering is also available. The TT616i has a full CANbus
The gcw is 95t. The standard control system integrating all
engine is the (Stage 3a/Tier 3) functions into a single system and
Cummins 173 hp matched to the showing full operational and serv-
Allison 3000 IM transmission, ice data on one display panel.
with Sisu front and drive axles. For State-of-the-art diagnostics assist
customers operating with con- in service and maintenance plan-
tinuously heavy loads Kalmar rec- ning, saving time, effort and costs,
ommends the 220 hp Cummins says Kalmar.
Gearbox mystery
The Port of Seattle recently ap- answer. Michael Burke, the port’s
proved a US$350,000 vibration director of seaport cargo opera-
and oil analysis testing pro- tions, told the Commission that
gramme to help try and iden- any design or manufacturing de-
tify the cause of repeated gear- fect would ultimately be ZPMC’s
box problems with the Flender responsibility, but any claim
gearboxes in its ZPMC cranes. against it would be difficult.
Seattle ordered the cranes in He stressed that the port has
2003 for Terminal 46. By July taken no action against ZPMC
2007 all of the main drive gear- or Flender to date, and said that
boxes had failed prematurely, at ZPMC has been very coopera-
less than 10% of their expected tive in trying to get the issue re-
50,000h service life. solved. The only other significant
In 2007 the port purchased warranty issue identified with the
spare parts and spare gearboxes cranes was a fractured trolley rail
from Flender to implement a re- and ZPMC completely reim-
placement programme where bursed the port for the repair.
failed units are changed out and There is a view within
repaired to create more spares for ZPMC that the gearboxes were
the next failure. simply undersized for the appli-
This has been successful in cation. However, fitting bigger
minimising crane downtime but units would require a complete
both the port and Total Termi- redesign of the crane’s machin-
nals, Inc, the stevedore at T46, ery house and relocation of most
want a longer term solution. of the major drive components.
Flender, which is owned by In 2007 the port estimated
Siemens, has analysed damaged this would cost around
parts to try and determine the US$500,000 per crane and re-
cause of the failures. The port quire several months of down-
had thought Siemens bearings in time. In the longer term, how-
the gearboxes might be the ever, it may be the only solution
problem but tests on the fourth and while the cost sounds high
failed gearbox showed that this the port has so far spent or allo-
is not the case. cated over US$900,000 on spare
In late 2008 the Seattle Port gearboxes, parts and professional
Commission approved the vibra- testing services, plus US$244,000
tion and oil analysis, but this is in reimbursement costs to TTI for
unlikely to provide a definitive completing repairs.
2 January 2009
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