TTS Wins Translifter Contract
Finland’s TTS Liftec Oy, Tampere, part of the Port and Material Handling Division of Norway’s TTS Marine ASA, Bergen, has won a contract to supply two ports in northern Europe with Translifters for new Transfennica services from Finland. Transfennica, one of Finland’s largest shipowners, uses cassettes as part of the loading/unloading operation for cargoes throughout Europe. As from January 1, Transfennica is starting new services between various ports in Finland, the largest being Hanko, Hamina and Rauma, to Rostock (Germany) and Gdynia (Poland). In both ports, the cargo handling companies – Poland’s Idal Group in Gdynia and Germany’s MSB in Rostock, have ordered two Translifters each from TTS Liftec.
TTS Marine ASA
Finland’s TTS Liftec OY has won a number of contracts for port and terminal equipment recently, including: an order from Sweden’s Stora Enso for 120 x 80 ton RoRo cassettes, which will become part Stora Enso´s North European Transport Supply System (NETSS) for transport of SECU boxes between the Nordic countries and it’s terminals in Europe; and an order from Sweden’s Ståltransport i Avesta AB in Sweden for two translifters type LTH115 -12000. These translifters each have a loading capacity of 115 ton slabs on trestles and coils on cassettes.
