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First hydrogen-powered empty-box stacker
In a non-binding Declaration of Intent with HHLA – Hamburger Hafen und Logistik in May 2022, US forklift builder Hyster announced deliv- ery of two electric vehicles with fuel cell technology. Apart from a hy- drogen-powered terminal tractor, Hyster will bring Hyster will bring
the world’s first hydrogen-fueled empy-container stacker into service in Hamburg in early 2023. The two vehicles are key components in the Clean Port and Logistics Program. This joint HHLA initiative with other European companies aims to test and bring into operation the next generation of hydrogen-fuelled port equipment.
The H2 stacker and the tractor will be deployed at HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort. Hydrogen from the HHLA Hamburg Green Hydro- gen Hub will fuel both the forklift’s 60-kilowatt fuel cell and the 45-kilowatt cell on the tractor. The terminal will be equipped with the required tank infrastructure and connected to Hamburg’s future hy- drogen network. The aim is to reduce emissions from port cargo handling and create the basis for a strong hydrogen sector in busi- ness in Hamburg, Germany and Europe. (sh)
Birth of the container
Malcolm McLean is seen as the father of the container. The forwarder from North Carolina disliked seeing many dockers spending hours shifting his car- goes piece by piece from trucks to ships. It was in 1937 that he is said to have had the idea of loading whole lorries on to ships, later simply the loaded re- ceptacles. Convinced by his idea, he himself designed the first containers, founded the Sea-Land Corporation shipping company and started refitting ships so that the steel boxes of his own design could be loaded on deck. One of these ships was the ‘Ideal X’, a former naval oil tanker. Loaded with 58 con- tainers, on 26 April 1956 she sailed from Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. Arriving at her destination, the containers were rapidly loaded onto trucks without any problems. Although the container had proved to be a suc- cess, ten years were to elapse before one arrived in Europe on board the ‘MS Fairland’. The box now dominates the scene in the Port of Hamburg, which in
2021 alone handled 8.7 million standard containers.
Saskia Hasskamp (sh)
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