ORTS GmbH Maschinenfabrik is a family-owned German engineering company founded in 1972, specializing in the design and manufacture of high-quality grabs for the loading and unloading of ships. Located near the Baltic Sea in Sereetz (Lübeck), ORTS constructs and produces all equipment in Germany, certifying and testing products in cooperation with DNV Germany. The company is the world's leading expert in radio-controlled diesel-hydraulic grabs, a technology they pioneered in 1994. Their product range includes electro-hydraulic motor grabs, fully radio-controlled diesel-hydraulic grabs, mechanical rope grabs (1-rope, 2-rope, and 4-rope), lifting beams and traverses, and special constructions including the world's largest working grab (115t) used for salvage operations in the Suez Canal. ORTS grabs are used worldwide in shipping and ports, industry and trade, and agriculture and biomass applications — renowned for their reliability, power, and excellent price-performance ratio with spare parts available even for 30-year-old grabs.