Gottwald Port Technology, a subsidiary of Demag Cranes, is supplying 22 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to Europe Container Terminals (ECT) in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Gottwald's type CT60 AGVs are to replace the first-generation container transporters which have been in operation around the clock as part of the AGV fleet at ECT's facility since the early 1990s. The new AGVs are equipped with fuel-saving diesel-electric drives and comply with the European EuroMot IIIB exhaust gas standard that has been in force since 2011.
The AGVs are for automated container transport from the quayside to the stackyard. To date, the company has equipped three large maritime terminals with AGVs. Gottwald developed the first automation concept for horizontal container transport back in the 1980s with ECT, when the ECT Delta Terminal in Rotterdam became the world's first container terminal to be equipped with a complete fleet of Gottwald AGVs.
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