The container handling equipment, comprising of 10 ship-to-shore cranes, 20 automated stacking cranes and five straddle carriers, are scheduled for deliver between 2014 to 2016.
The Indonesian government has introduced a nationwide freight transport program to improve the movement of goods through the country's vast waterways. As part of this program Pelindo III will construct a new terminal called Lamong Bay Terminal in Surabaya, East Java, with a planned inauguration in 2014.
“Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago and has fast growing provincial economies, so its ports are crucial to international, regional and domestic trade,” said Philippe Richard, Konecranes' country director in Indonesia. “With our leading technology in port solutions and a strategic target of increasing our presence in the area, we are very pleased to have won this order”.
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