Wallenius Wilhelmsen has ordered four heavy forklift trucks and two reachstackers, all of them electric, as well as three heavy terminal tractors for the company's US operations.

The deal also includes the Kalmar Insight fleet performance management tool.

The order is part of Wallenius Wilhelmsen's onshore emission reduction activities, in which the company switches to zero-emission equipment wherever practicable.

"Our two companies have benefitted from a partnership that stretches back more than three decades. This new agreement to renew our cargo-handling equipment with fully electric and more eco-efficient machines is an important step supporting our clean fleet initiative in the US. We believe that Kalmar's heavy equipment offering is the right choice to help us reach our goals," commented Ove Moring, Head of Supplier & Contract Management at Wallenius Wilhelmsen.

Svante Alverönn, Vice President, Global Service Solutions, Kalmar, added, "We are extremely proud that Wallenius Wilhelmsen has chosen Kalmar equipment as part of its fleet renewal programme in the US. This order is another clear demonstration of the rapidly rising demand for robust fully electric equipment that is capable of moving heavy loads, and represents the first sales of our electric reachstacker and heavy electric forklift to a customer in the US."

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