Straddle Carrier

Towards a more eco-efficient future with hybrid straddles

Fifty years from its introduction, the Kalmar straddle carrier is now a textbook example of what can be achieved with hybrid drivelines. Over 300 hybrid versions have been ordered and delivered to date, including 43 to DP World Antwerp Gateway, and they are hard at work helping customers around the world to cut fuel costs, CO2 emissions and noise.

The Kalmar straddle carrier has benefited from plenty of significant technological advances over its long and distinguished 50-year history. There are now over 5,500 machines working in terminals across the globe, and in the future an increasingly large number of these will be hybrids – powered by the latest in lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology.

“While hybrid machinery is commonplace in our everyday lives now, back in 2008 when Kalmar began formulating its vision of a hybrid straddle carrier, this was cutting-edge stuff,” says Jorge Medranda, Sales Manager at Kalmar.

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