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MoorMaster™ units are used at a growing number of ferry applications.

Cavotec signs breakthrough EUR 9m orders for unmanned mooring of electric ferries

Cavotec is set to revolutionise the operation of e-vessels by delivering and maintaining its automated, unmanned, mooring system MoorMaster™ for e-ferry ports across Norway. With these orders, MoorMaster™ is now the leading technology to safely and efficiently moor e-vessels, a segment set for rapid growth.

Boxing clever: Cavotec is supplying its advanced cable reel technologies for two Boxhunter RTG. Image credit: Konecranes.

Cavotec powers Konecranes Boxhunter RTG cranes

Konecranes has selected Cavotec to supply advanced cable reel technologies for two electrically powered Boxhunter Rubber Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes at an application in Paraguay. The cranes are the latest generation of Konecranes lightweight RTG cranes, and are set to reduce environmental impact and improve operational efficiency at the port.

Cavotec HOI enables the safe, efficient remote operation of the Atlas Copco ST Tram loader.

Atlas Copco selects Cavotec HOI to improve mining loader safety, efficiency

Working closely with mining group Atlas Copco, Cavotec has developed an innovative Human Operator Interface (HOI) system, incorporating long-range wireless communication, for operators of rugged loader vehicles used in mining applications deep underground. The solution, which first entered service in 2016, has generated substantial safety and efficiency gains at a mining application in Russia.

Cavotec connects Asia’s first e-ferry to electrical power

Cavotec connects Asia’s first e-ferry to electrical power

Our innovative charging technologies have connected Asia’s first e-ferry to electrical power, eliminating emissions and dramatically reducing operating costs, and highlighting Cavotec’s leading position in this increasingly important segment.

Reel power: Cavotec motorised cable reels on the ZPMC cranes at PTP in Malaysia.

Cavotec reels power record-breaking STS cranes

Cavotec engineers have once again manufactured cable reels that set new standards in operational performance with reels that provide electrical power for ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes that boast the highest lifting distance of any STS cranes anywhere in the world today.

Season's Greetings from Cavotec

Season's Greetings from Cavotec

We'd like to thank all our followers, customers, partners, and suppliers for 2017, and wish you all the best for 2018.

Bridging brilliance: our industrial radio remote controls help move some the world's most outsized loads.

How Cavotec helps transport the world's heaviest objects

We’re proud to support heavy-duty haulage specialist Goldhofer to move some of the world’s heaviest objects. Over the past 10 years, Cavotec Radio Remote Control (RRC) solutions have helped transport NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour, shift a vast bridge section on the French island of La Reunion, and carry segments of oil rigs, building structures, and large tanks and reservoirs.

Under control: an operator controls STS cranes from a safe distance at the Port of Yanhshan, China.

Cavotec RRCs deliver safety, efficiency gains for ZPMC

When ZPMC – one of the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy duty equipment and STS cranes – needed to ensure safe, reliable, and cost efficient maintenance of STS cranes at automated container terminals in China and Morocco, they selected our advanced Radio Remote Control (RRC) units to do the job.

Cruising towards clear skies: the Cavotec AMPMobile unit at Montreal's cruise terminal

Canadian ports cut emissions with Cavotec shore power technologies

Cavotec shore power systems are helping ports in Canada make substantial reductions in cruise and container ship emissions, with the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) recently reporting that its shore power initiatives are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by some 2,800 tonnes a year.

MoorMaster units - the world's first EX-certified automated mooring technology - hold the UTS in place.

EX-certified automated mooring enables "new era" in LNG distribution

EX-certified MoorMaster™ automated mooring units have played a key role in enabling the first ever transfer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a ship to a floating LNG platform, a breakthrough that customer ConnectLNG describes as a “new era” in LNG distribution.

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