Cargotec Receives Significant RoRo Equipment Orders for PCTCs

Press Release, January 24, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. Finnish time

Cargotec, MacGREGOR’s business area providing marine cargo handling and offshore solutions, has received RoRo equipment orders for 12 pure car/truck carriers (PCTCs). The equipment will be delivered during 2009–2010 and the value of the orders exceeds EUR 20 million.

MacGREGOR is the largest supplier of RoRo equipment for PCTCs and deepsea RoRos and has since year 2000 delivered and been contracted to deliver RoRo equipment to more than 200 such ships.

Also MacGREGOR has the most extensive experience in its field in manufacturing RoRo equipment in China for the Korean market. The orders now received include approximately 6,500 tonnes of liftable car decks for four vessels that will be built in the Korean Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard, as well as design and key component for eight PCTCs built at Chinese Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry.