Reach Stackers from Linde Material Handling ensure ground support at Taiwan harbour
Linde’s Heavy Truck Division has recently installed one Empty Container Handler and one Reachstacker to operate in the newly opened port of Taipei, for ground support and Container yard operations. The new port is operated by Evergreen Marine Corp, one of three domestic maritime firms involved with the development programme, the others being, Yangming Marine Transport Corp and Wan Hai Lines.
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The machines are supplied from the Linde Heavy truck Division, with manufacturing sites in the UK and China. The Reachstacker features fully integrated load position and machine drive/hydraulic control systems; this integrated system ensures that the driver is in the correct operational mode for the job in hand, thereby protecting the machine against misuse. The Empty Handler the latest generation launched during 2008 features the world-renowned Linde hydrostatic drive and control system technology; also interfaced with the operator control and lift systems, the machine provides the driver with effortless control.
Taipei Port terminals was inaugurated by the Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou who commented that Taipei Port's newly built container terminals can bring Taiwan's geographic advantage into full play, and turn the island into an innovation and creativity hub and a centre of economic and trade development in the Asia-Pacific.
Ma made the remarks at the inauguration of the No. 3 and No. 4 container terminals of Taipei Port, a man-made seaport built on reclaimed land lying south of the Danshui River estuary in northern Taiwan and facing west toward the Taiwan Strait, the first BOT (build-operate-transfer) container terminal construction project in Taiwan.
Currently, most containers bound for overseas ports are transported by road from northern or central Taiwan to Kaohsiung Harbor in the south, then loaded onto ocean-going vessels, while containers from abroad, particularly from Western countries, are shipped to Kaohsiung Harbor and then transported by road to their destinations within the country.
The two container terminals inaugurated are among seven scheduled to be built by 2014 under an 11-year BOT project launched in 2003.
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