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and December 2008, p3) Noell now has equipment. Alotau Stevedoring &Trans- to trucks for delivery. This is safer than The new SC440S machine from Liebherr,
its new NSCE ECO machine with a port at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea working at trailer height and using
with diesel-electric drive
supercapacitor in service at HHLA and handles two weekly 60 TEU calls from flatracks means that ARC does not need
more machines are slated for delivery this geared vessels and, as the wharf can not to wait for trailers to return. minal. The latest machines will be
year. Konecranes is known to be work- support heavy FLTs, was using sidelifters Finally, Australian Customs Service is ESC350WA with a lifting capacity of 50t.
ing on a hybrid drive of some configura- to load containers to trailers. Alotau now using five Mobicons at Australia’s main Annala said the Brisbane machines are
tion, but Andreas declined to comment has a Mobicon as its only container han- ports. Containers are drayed to customs completing up to 32,000 lifts/month.
further, other than to say the requirements dler and has cut berthing time by 50%. for X-ray using trucks and Customs uses While Patrick is using a millimetre wave
are “a reliable solution which has to make In Australia, Luckens Fumigation Mobicons to move containers requiring radar/GPS navigation system developed
sense from a commercial point of view.” Services purchased a Mobicon to offer full inspection indoors. by Patrick Technology and Systems (par-
Two of the new Kalmar ESC Ws that indoor fumigation services at its new fa- Mobicon also argues that the machine tially owned by Kalmar), Kalmar has de-
DP World Southampton ordered last cility in Welshpool, Perth. Luckens uses is a cost-effective way to separate produc- veloped its own magnet-based navigation
month will be fitted with Kalmar’s new Konecranes FLTs but with the Mobicon tion/warehousing from transport require- system for the Autoshuttle system it of-
hybrid drive package and, as the system is containers can be brought directly into ments and get the safety benefits of work- fers as part of its own “integrated hori-
retrofittable, the other 13 can be upgraded the building through the 4.5m high door. ing containers on the ground. Donaldson zontal transportation system” with ASCs.
if it proves successful. DPW is testing the Australian Reinforcing Company (ARC) is targeting building 40 units this year. The main advantage of the magnet-
system on a 40t and a 50t machine. has taken delivery of two more Mobicons, based system, Annala states, is that navi-
Kalmar’s own tests over three months taking its fleet to four. Robot fleet hits 37 gation is free from reflections/interference
showed the hybrid uses 20-25% less fuel. ARC loads domestic deliveries on Patrick Stevedores has ordered 37 more in the key interchange zones underneath
Annala says that despite falling oil prices flatracks, which the Mobicons later load Kalmar Autostrads for its Brisbane ter- quay cranes and ASCs. a74
there is continuing interest in hybrid tech-
nology. The machine was two years in de-
velopment and was launched last April.
Noell has applied for a patent on an
interesting hybrid concept using a “mi-
cro” gas turbine engine instead of a die-
sel. By using a gas turbine with a battery
and power regulation system, Noell
claims, it is possible to overcome the prob- : % , 0 ) L E W M X G S Z I V I H
lem of the micro turbine stalling during
load variations.
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its Remote Machine Interface (RMI). A
fully integrated tyre pressure monitoring
system was launched in 2008 and the next
stage is to improve servicing efficiency by
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getting the machines to send fault infor-
mation automatically to workshop per-
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shooting and make repairs more of a “pit
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stop” for component replacement.
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Mobicon comes in low X V E R W Q M W W M S R
Mobicon of Australia now has around 75
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of its low height machines operating in
Australasia. The machine has two inde-
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pendent lifting towers that engage a con-
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tainer at the bottom corner castings. With
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a wheel load of 6t (with a 32t container),
no heavy paving is required and Mobicon ˆ 0 S [ P M J I G ] G P I G S W X
can carry a container through a doorway
as low as 4m.
Business development manager Tony
Donaldson says customers are using the
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machine in three main ways: the only ' S R H Y G X S V 7 ] W X I Q W
container handler, primary machine (with
an empty handler), or in support of heavy
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Straddle scanner
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The US Department of Energy’s (DoE)
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
has awarded a US$23M contract to New
Mexico-based Detector Networks Inter-
national (DNI) for six straddle scanner
machines built on a straddle platform from
Australia’s Isoloader.
Isoloader specialises in niche machines
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and for this project will be supplying a
17.7m high, 5.2m wide and 9.1m long
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adaptation of its Transporter series, minus
the lifting gear, with diesel hydraulic drive.
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The scanner panels will cover any con- Q Q M R
tainer in a 4-high straddle stack and the
machine has special vibration protection.
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In response to the RFP, Cargotec Port
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Security, Inc (CPS) developed a design
for a Kalmar straddle carrier with a group
of sensors mounted in the legs to detect
gamma, neutron and X-ray radiation, and
this was awarded QATT (Qualified Anti- ) 6 8 +
Terrorism Technology) status by the DHS.
However, there is a school of thought that
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scanning should be a separate activity to
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