Empty Container Handling
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Empty-handling argument doesn't stack up
Manufacturers of reachstackers and competing empty container handling gear differ about whether a reachstacker is the best piece of equipment, as David Foxwell finds out 01 Oct 2006 - Port Strategy
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Reaching alternatives
Hyster, along with other manufacturers, remains unconvinced about reachstackers and whether they really are what the market wants - or needs - to use to handle empties, and with this in mind is launching a new range of FLTs for empty container handling, the H16.00-22.00XM-12EC. 01 Oct 2006 - Port Strategy
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On or Off-Dock?
Nick Elliott seeks the views of experts on the thorny question: what to do with the empties? 01 Nov 2005 - Port Strategy
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Look to achieving cost efficiency
Dan Pettersson, product manager at Kalmar, puts the view of the equipment providers: " For some time now there's been really a very high demand for dedicated empty handlers. This is partly driven by the growth of empty containers needing to be handled and also a continued strong trend for separating the handling of empty boxes from the loaded ones. This is clearly a global trend also in smaller terminals and also in less developed markets. As the volume of empty boxes goes up it makes sense to separate the handling of them. 01 Nov 2005 - Port Strategy
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Reorganisation: The Pay-Off
Southampton Container Terminal (SCT) has one of the worst imbalances of trade in Europe with empties accounting for over a quarter of throughput. Benedict Young finds how they're combatting the problem. 01 Nov 2005 - Port Strategy
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HIGHER AND HIGHER
Considering the huge container imbalances prevalent in most of the world' s trades and the consequent need to move empty boxes from place to place, it' s a wonder Empty Container Handlers (ECHs) are not in the news more. Nick Elliott reports on how economics, speed and stacking capability make them the first choice when set against the modified forklift or the reachstacker. 01 Jun 2004 - Port Strategy
