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Hyster to Provide Electric Empty Container Handler at Malta Freeport Terminals
The battery electric container handler pilot will contribute to CMA CGM’s objectives to accelerate its energy transition and achieve net-zero carbon by 2050. To help achieve this decarbonisation objective across its shipping, inland, and logistics operations, the company has created ‘PULSE, CMA CGM Energy Fund’, to accelerate the decarbonization of all of the CMA CGM Group’s activities and its value chain. PULSE will fund the 2-year pilot agreement for the Hyster® battery electric empty container handler, helping the CMA CGM Group and its subsidiary Terminal Link make reductions to its greenhouse gas emissions specifically at Malta Freeport in Birżebbuġa, Malta. “The introduction of the Hyster battery electric empty container handler at Malta Freeport is an important step in reducing emissions in our Terminal operations as part of “We have a long-standing connection with CMA CGM, which has been a global Hyster customer for more than a decade and has used Hyster empty container handlers in its Malta Freeport Terminals since 2016. We also recently collaborated with them on the iTerminals 4.0 project, piloting programmes that harness digitalisation to explore smart maintenance for port equipment. Working together to pioneer the use of a lithium-ion battery-powered empty container handler is the next exciting development in this relationship,” said Niek Willems, Leader of Business Development, Global Ports and Terminals for Hyster. The design of the battery electric empty container handler for Malta Freeport Terminals, based on the equivalent diesel model to provide a familiar user experience for operators, is the result of years of Hyster research and development around port equipment electrification. It follows projects such as the pilot of a hydrogen fuel cell-powered top-pick container handler at the Port of Los Angeles, and a hydrogen fuel cell-powered Reach Stacker to the Port of Valencia. All these innovative developments aim to transform operations which have previously depended on trucks with internal combustion engines and provide real-world solutions that enable businesses to meet their sustainability goals.
Hyster Europe, a trading name of Hyster-Yale UK Limited, a subsidiary of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc., is a worldwide lift truck designer and manufacturer, offering more than 140 models of counterbalance trucks, warehouse, and container handling equipment. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hyster-Yale, Inc. which is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and operates globally. Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, is a leading global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, distinguished by its expertise and commitment to innovation. With operations spanning 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices, 750 warehouses and a fleet of 620 vessels, the Group connects over 420 ports around the world across 5 continents, delivering a comprehensive array of shipping and logistics services. Malta Freeport Terminals is a state-of-the-art transhipment hub strategically located in the heart of the Mediterranean Freeport handling almost 3 million TEU containers a year and offering services to more than 100 ports worldwide on mainline and feeder routes operated by major global shipping lines.
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our commitment to eliminating carbon emissions by 2050. This collaboration will help us to leverage cutting-edge, sustainable technology to meet our decarbonisation goals while maintaining the efficiency and reliability that our operations demand,” said Alex Montebello, CEO at Malta Freeport Terminals Ltd.
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