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Yokohama Kawasaki International Port Corp. (YKIP) and JFE Engineering, a Tokyo- and Yokohama-based engineering company, will operate a gantry crane by remote control on a trial basis at the Port of Yokohama’s Minami Honmoku Pier.
The trial operation, the first such project to be carried out at a Japanese port, will be made to supplementarily study challenges to overcome to develop technologies for large gantry cranes that JFE Engineering, a Tokyo- and Yokohama-based engineering company, cannot address in its technological development efforts.
With a gantry crane at the pier, one of the largest cranes in Japan that can handle 24 bays and nine tiers of containers, YKIP, which owns the crane, and JFE Engineering, which manufactured it, will oversee onshore and on-board workers as well as containers on board containerships with cameras and sensors to collect data to come up with challenges to overcome for remotely operating gantry cranes.
