Japanese ship equipment manufacturer Mitsui E&S has replaced the conventional diesel engine generator set installed on a near-zero-emission rubber-tired gantry crane (RTG) – previously delivered to Utoc Corporation at the Yokohama Port Minami-Honmoku Pier Container Terminal – with a hydrogen fuel cell power pack, as part of an on-site zero-emission cargo handling equipment trial.
It is understood that Mitsui E&S has been developing cargo handling equipment utilizing hydrogen fuel for many years. The RTG, which the company provided technical support for and retrofitted, is reportedly now being used in Utoc’s on-site demonstration project as a zero-emission cargo handling machine operating solely on hydrogen.