Hutchison Ports Pakistan is pouring a planned $76 million into a new decarbonization plan that promises to deploy more than 70 new electric terminal tractors at its Karachi container terminal as part of a bigger plan to clean up the Pakistani port operations.

One of the world’s largest port operators, Hutchison Port Holdings Limited first deployed a handful of electric terminal tractors last year, and – like just about everyone else who’s put battery-powered yard hostlers to work – they couldn’t be happier with the trucks’ performance across the more than 450,000 km (~280,000 miles) covered in the last year, alone. That performance is driving the company to invest an additional $76M in additional port electrification efforts.

In a press release-style Instagram post titled, “Karachi Port Charts a Course for a Smarter, Future-ready Port Ecosystem,” the company laid out plans to deploy an additional 20 e-trucks (shorthand for the Westwell E-Truck S1 terminal tractor, shown) this October, with fully 50 more E-Trucks arriving on-site before the end of 2027.

The $76 million investment also calls for new electric material handlers, two electric remote-controlled quay cranes, 17 electric, remote-controlled rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs), and 40 e-trailers (heavy-duty trailers with integrated e-axles and batteries).

Despite a Western-style name, the Westwell E-Truck is built in China , around an immensely powerful electric motor producing 3,800 Nm (~2800 lb-ft) at 0 rpm – more than enough to casually haul up to 75 tons of mass (165,000 lb. GCWR) across the relatively short distances involved in container port operations.

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