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MCT (TIL) has ordered to Kalmar 32 new straddle carrier for the container terminal of Gioia Tauro
They will be delivered within the end of 2019
April 30, 2019
The Kalmar of the Cargotec group has announced today that the terminalista society Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), that it manages the terminal containers of the port of Gioia Tauro, has ordered to the supply of 32 cranes to knight diesel engine-electrical workers to them who will be delivered within the end of this year. We remember that the property of the MCT is passing under the entire control of the Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) of the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) with which the terminalista group Contship Italy has recently signed an agreement in order to yield them own participation that is pairs to 50% of the social capital(on 1° April 2019).
With the new order salt to 164 the number of straddle carrier that Kalmar has supplied to the Medcenter Container Terminal from when the terminalista society has become operating in September 1995. "MCT - Marc Desmons, equipment engineering director of the TIL has confirmed - until from its first day of activity has made much confidence on the technology of the straddle carrier of the Kalmar and therefore has been natural to get ahead this partnership of smash hit when it has been the moment to estimate the options for renews of the means fleet. The cars of the Kalmar are notes for the their excellent reliability and flexibility so as in order boasting a remarkable local support for their maintenance. Moreover Kalmar has been able to assure the delivery in times breviums of all the 32 new cars, that they will be delivered within the end of this year".
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