Findland-based port equipment provider, Kalmar, was awarded a contract to supply eight of its E-One+rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes to Istanbul-based Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik AS for the expansion of Kumport port in Turkey.

 

Erkay Derelli, managing director of Kumport, said: “We demand equipment availability and reliability of at least 90 to 95 percent, which is very important for our terminal business.

 

“There is also huge transit potential. Traffic is increasing, especially from the Far East to the

 

Black Sea area. Our port expansion, which includes reclaiming land from the sea and building

 

bridge connections, is all to be completed in five years.”  

 

The equipment will be delivered to Kumport in August 2009.