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CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT

A Familiar

Name

Tackles the rowth in the size of containerships is driving invest- ment across the maritime, port infrastructure and sup-

Waterfront’s

G porting industry spectrum. That’s because, until 2014,

Maersk Line’s Triple EEE was the largest containership in the world at 18,340 TEU, only to be surpassed two years later by

CSCL Globe (19,100 TEU), with a 21,100 TEU ship coming

Changing soon and a 24,000 TEU ship on the drawing board. The logis- tics chain effciency of running these mammoth ships is lost without matching port and terminal investment to move goods

Challenges to and through shore side facilities.

Simultaneously, stricter environmental regulations demand that the machines powering the movement of goods run clean- er and more effciently. To compete and survive in the era of

Providing vehicles and equip- tighter schedules and margins, better management of an ef- fcient supply chain requires a thorough understanding of the ment across the broad global machines that power the process. Material Handling equip- spectrum of consumer automo- ment – including container handlers, reach stackers and fork- lifts – and services offerings, specifcally focused on port op- biles to commercial trucks and erations, is just one way to reach the Promised Land. In fact, without a reliable source of modern, clean material handling on to the waterfront, Toyota vehicles, you can’t get from here to there.

has ‘been there and done that.’

TMHU: a New Option for Stakeholders

The business of moving heavy cargo remains the domain of heavy duty, high capacity, reliable machinery that brings the physical muscle to the cargo handling and logistics chain, par-

Edited by Joseph Keefe 56 Maritime Logistics Professional November/December 2017 | |