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CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT

Changing Box Landscape Demands

That Yard Tools Keep Pace

The summer of 2017 presents both ports and container termi-

The need for increased oper- nal operators everywhere with many challenges. A shifting liner alliance landscape has reshuffed the intermodal deck, and some ating effciencies for container ports are scrambling to dredge and fnish the infrastructure nec- essary to handle the increased TEU throughput. Separately, re- terminals collides with the de- newed pressure from the regulatory side of the equation – no- tably the so-called West Coast Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) mands of a Tier 4 regulatory – has ports puzzling over how to ramp up already robust (and successful) efforts to clean up their environmental footprint.

climate. Fortunately, you can

All ports, no matter where they reside, share two common denominators. The desire for an effcient and proftable cargo achieve the former goal while operation must be balanced by the need to go green. Take lift satisfying your thirst for latter.

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