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To Native-born Singapore the logistic group Katoen has put in service the own first leading truck without
Shortly they will be employed until 12 independent vehicles that they will enliven about three million producing tons of per year
October 25, 2017
Yesterday to Singapore the Belgian group Native-born Katoen has inaugurated the first regular travel of the first leading truck without that it takes part of the fleet of motor vehicles of the logistic group and that will be used 24 hours on 24 and seven days on seven in order to transport produced between the system of storage of the Belgian group and the integrated system of production of the petrochemical group ExxonMobil.
The independent truck will annually transport about 250 thousand producing tons of. After a phase of test of six months they will come gradually employed until 12 leading trucks without that three million producing tons of per year will enliven about.
The project of automation of Native-born the used heavy vehicles from Katoen is realized by the group in collaboration with Dutch VDL Groep and the work of conversion and automation of the trucks is realized in the plant of the Dutch company to Singapore.
The entire project of the Belgian group previews the realization of three phases, with the first inaugurated that it previews the employment of the independent trucks on a distance of about 6-8 kilometers in the chemical plant on the Island of Jurong, with transponders operatingly yesterday installed along the way in order to signal the position of the trucks in the middle of control. In the second phase the transponders will be replaced by a GPS system and the range of the leading trucks without will be extended. In the third phase, that it would have to be put into effect in 2020, the independent vehicles will be tested on public roads transporting container between the various chemical plants on the Island of Jurong arriving also to the new harbour area of Tuas.
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Yesterday to Singapore the Belgian group Native-born Katoen has inaugurated the first regular travel of the first leading truck without that it takes part of the fleet of motor vehicles of the logistic group and that will be used 24 hours on 24 and seven days on seven in order to transport produced between the system of storage of the Belgian group and the integrated system of production of the petrochemical group ExxonMobil.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
