BREAKTHROUGH FOR ECO-FRIENDLY RTGS IN THE BALTIC AREA

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Breakthrough for eco-friendly RTGs in the Baltic area

Konecranes has in May 2008 received a major order for 19 rubber tired gantry
(RTG) cranes for three terminals operated by National Container Company (NCC)
in Russia. Fifteen of the cranes ordered are cable reel RTGs, the rest are
regular RTGs. The cranes will be delivered to two terminals in Russia and one
in Ukraine. The first cranes will be delivered in the spring 2009. The value of
the order is not disclosed. 

The ordered equipment will increase throughput capacity at NCC's terminals and
improve productivity. Eleven cable reel RTGs will be supplied to the terminal
in Ust-Luga, 150 km west of St.Petersburg, on the Baltic Sea. Four cable reel
RTGs will be delivered to the NUTEP terminal in Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.
The last four RTGs will be delivered to Ukrtranscontainer in Illichivsk in
Ukraine. 

“This is an important breakthrough for the environmental-friendly cable reel
technology in the Baltic area,” says Aku Lehtinen, Director, RTG cranes as
Konecranes. “The market is showing increasing interest in environmental
friendly solutions.” 

“NCC plans to purchase altogether 50 cranes of this standard. At our terminals
we arrange operations by means of RTG cranes, most of which produced by
Konecranes. Six cranes have already been working at UTC, fourteen more were
ordered in September 2008 for FCT and Shushary terminal,” says Evgeny Yuzhilin,
NCC Vice-President on technology and terminal construction. 

The new cable reel RTG cranes reduce local emissions by 95 percent as the
cranes run on electricity from the grid. They are also equipped with
regenerative units, which means that excess energy is fed back to the grid. The
cable reel technology is modular and can be retrofitted on a crane. 

In addition, all the cranes ordered are equipped with Konecranes YardIT
GPS-based autosteering and container positioning equipment, which increases
safety and maximizes equipment performance in harbors. The container
positioning system tells where to locate and pick up a container. The system
eliminates lost containers and the high related costs. Another important
feature of all RTGs is the advanced load positioning feature, which includes
sway prevention and horizontal fine-positioning of containers. 

Cooperation with NCC started back in the 1980s. The previous order from NCC was
received in October 2007, and the cranes, seven STS cranes and fourteen RTGs
are at present under production. 

Further information:
Press
Aku Lehtinen, Director, RTG Cranes
E-mail: aku.lehtinen@konecranes.com or phone +358 20 427 2665

Financial Media and Analysts
Paul Lönnfors, Investor Relations Manager
E-mail: paul.lonnfors@konecranes.com or phone +358 20 427 2050

This press release and a downloadable picture are available at our website
www.konecranes.com 

Caption:
”Konecranes supplies environmental-friendly cable reel RTGs to NCC.”

About Konecranes
Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad
range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards,
ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting
solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all
makes. In 2007, Group sales totaled EUR 1,750 million. The Group has 8,800
employees, in more than 470 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on
the OMX Helsinki Stock Exchange (symbol: KCR1V). 

About NCC
National Container Company (NCC) is the leading container terminal operator in
Russia and CIS. The company was founded in 2002. The Group of companies First
Quantum and the Transport Group FESCO own NCC on parity basis. 
NCC operates First Container Terminal (FCT, St. Petersburg), Container Terminal
NUTEP (Novorossiysk) and Container Terminal Ukrtranscontainer (UTC, Illichivsk,
Ukraine) providing customers with container handling services that combine
world-class standard terminal operations with state-of-the-art technology. 
In April, 2007, National Container Company (NCC) started the construction of
Ust-Luga Container Terminal (ULCT, Leningrad region) which is due to become the
largest one in Russia and the Baltic region with the annual throughput capacity
of 3 million TEU. NCC also develops off-dock Logistics Terminal in Shushary
(St. Petersburg) with total capacity of 200,000 TEU per year. 
The aggregated throughput of NCC's terminals in 2007 amounted to 1,556,444 TEU.
Further information about NCC and additional press releases are available at
http://www.container.ru. 

Media inquiries:
Natalia Letneva
letneva@container.ru, 

Alexander Voronkov
voronkov@container.ru

Tel: +7  495  721 1689 
National Container Company Press Office

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