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Second-hand, not second class
14 May 2008
The northeast England port of Blyth found second-hand to be the best option when it required an additional reachstacker for its container operations; it has recently bought a second-hand Terex TFC45 R.
Port of Blyth: reachstacker
When looking for back-up, our view was that a second-hand crane made perfect sense, particularly as it is identical, including in age and hours, to one of our other reachstackers simplifying maintenance, etc, says Port of Blyth chief executive Martin Lawlor.
As a niche container port focusing on
value-added services devanning, strategic stockholding, repalletising, JIT,
etc rather than high intensity throughput, it made perfect business sense
acquiring a five-year-old machine with low hours for less than half the new
price.
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