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22 PSA has ordered Automated Guided Vehicles
Eighteen means are commissioned the Cargotec Finn, two to the French Gaussin Manugistique and two to the Japanese Toyota Industries
June 20, 2016
group PSA has ordered 22 new means to automatic guide that will be used for the transport of the container from the docks to the large squares of storage of the container terminal Pasir Panjang Terminal that the group manages in the port of Singapore. The new operated by remote control means will be taken in delivery in the second half of the year of 2017. With such acquisition the consistency of the fleet of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) of the terminalista group will go up to 30 units (eight AGV is already in service to the Pasir Panjang Terminal).
Of 22 new units AGV, 18 is ordered to the Cargotec Finn, two to the French Gaussin Manugistique and two to the Japanese Toyota Industries.
"To invest in advanced harbour technologies - it has emphasized the regional responsible for the Asian south-east of PSA International, Ong Kim Pong - continues to being a key element of PSA in the development of our terminals to Singapore to the aim to answer to the challenges placed from the increasing consolidation and to mega the alliances that call in our port. These new AGV to electric power supply evidence the PSA engagement in order to assure that the port is ecological and in order to increase the competences of our staff in the management of these technologies. We - he has added Kim Pong - do not see the hour to verify the results of the progresses completed from our attache's in order to prepare PSA for the consolidation of the activities in the field of the container in the future Tuas terminal". According to the forecasts, in fact, beginning from the 2020 activity of handling of the container currently carried out in the container terminal of the port of Singapore will be transferred in the new harbour area of Tuas, whose construction is started last month(of 1° the2October 2012 and May 2016).
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