Kalmar · port and yard vehicle
Kalmar AutoShuttle
A driverless one-over-one shuttle carrier that lifts its own containers and runs them between ship-to-shore cranes and automated stacking cranes. It is the horizontal transport at VICT in Melbourne, Australia's first fully automated container terminal.
- Price
- —Not sold as a priced product; supplied under project contracts
- Autonomy
- DriverlessHow it runs
- Driverless
- In serviceDriverless in service
- Fleet
- 11Reported; details below
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
Kalmar called it the industry's first fully automated one-over-one shuttle carrier.
Real-world use
VICT at Webb Dock East, Melbourne, ran 11 AutoShuttles and ordered six more in March 2021.
Maker
KalmarCompanyHow it drives
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- Driverless status
- Driverless in service
- Where it runs
- Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT), Webb Dock East, Port of Melbourne, Australia
- Fleet
- 11 at VICT plus 6 ordered, 17 total (Kalmar, March 2021)
Public attention
How much public attention Kalmar AutoShuttle gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
- 1 reported deployment
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.
Lineage
Every Kalmar (Cargotec until 2024) vehicle in order.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedNot sold as a priced product; supplied under project contracts
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Where it works
1 reported deployment.
- Deployed
Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) · VICT, Webb Dock East · Melbourne · 17 units
VICT at the Port of Melbourne runs Kalmar AutoShuttles and ordered six more to expand its automated fleet. 11 in service plus 6 ordered in March 2021 (Kalmar) Kalmar
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Kalmar AutoShuttleKalmar (Cargotec until 2024) |  Konecranes Gottwald battery AGV (lead-acid and Li-ion)KonecranesSame job: container moving · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2008-01 | 2011 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | — |
| Weight | — | — |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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