What does a Straddle Carrier do?

Kalmar Straddle Carriers are able to pick and place containers around your yard independently of other equipment allowing you to decouple your operations between your quayside and landside operations.

What does a Straddle Carrier cost?

The cost of a Kalmar Straddle Carrier is dependent on your requirements and specifications, to receive an estimated cost please speak directly to us.

What is the difference between a Straddle Carrier and Shuttle Carrier?

Both Shuttle Carriers and Straddle Carriers allow you to decouple your cargo handling operations, the difference is that a Shuttle Carrier is smaller than a Straddle Carrier and only able to carry a single container at a time. Straddle Carriers can carry two containers at a time and place containers up to 4 high, whilst a Shuttle Carrier is more efficient when picking and placing single containers onto the ground.

Kalmar Straddle Carriers, when flexibility is your driver.

Decouple your terminal operations.

A Kalmar Straddle Carrier operates independently to other cranes, picking and placing containers on the ground or on your container stacks, allowing you to decouple your operations both on your quayside with your STS and on your landside with other cranes.

Kalmar Straddle Carriers provide you with the ultimate flexibility as they can:

Load and unload trucks
Carry containers and stack them 1 over 3
Work with other cranes
Be integrated into your rail exchange
Move containers to and from reefer stacks
Operate effectively between your warehouse or depot and main yard.

Kalmar Straddle Carriers are highly eco-efficient, productive, reliable and safe to operate.

Eco-efficient: you have a choice of highly efficient power units from our zero emission electrically powered Kalmar FastCharge™ Straddle Carrier to our Hybrid Straddle Carrier that can cut your existing emissions by up to 40% when compared to traditional diesel-powered equipment.

Highly productive: You can handle two containers at a time and stack up to four containers high, lifting up to 60 tonnes.

Reliable: Every Kalmar Straddle Carrier is fitted with robust mobile drives which are designed to be reliable in harsh working conditions.

Safe: Kalmar Straddle Carriers feature the strongest chassis in the industry, active stability control as standard and key components are protected within the chassis. With superior operator visibility and easily accessible servicing points your team will always stay safe and in control.

Kalmar Straddle Carriers can be operated manually or be automated with Kalmar One Automation System and are available with a choice of different power sources - you just need to choose which is right for your business:

Kalmar AutoStrad™ is our automated container handling straddle carrier that allows you to choose the level of automation that is right for your terminal operations.

Kalmar FastCharge™ Straddle Carrier produces zero emissions at source as it has electric drive units using the latest battery technology.

Kalmar Hybrid Straddle Carrier uses a regenerative energy system that can reduce your fuel bills and emissions by up to 40%.

Kalmar Straddle Carrier uses an electric-diesel drive that offers high performance and excellent fuel efficiency.