{"id":250,"date":"2018-08-21T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/08\/21\/bromma-builds-on-industry-optimism\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:43:17","slug":"bromma-builds-on-industry-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/bromma-builds-on-industry-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bromma builds on industry optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bromma said that its market position generally remains at a very high market share \u2014 though geographical variations exist.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that it is defending a very elevated market stake in the North American market, while in the Asia Pacific region, order intake is substantially better than both last year and expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Bigger orders received during January to June this year included 11 ship-to-shore spreaders and 15 yard spreaders for China\u2019s Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal, as well as an order for 17 YSX40E yard spreaders for Malta Freeport.<\/p>\n<p>Bromma also claimed that as the demand grows for safety and performance, interest in existing equipment upgrades is steadily increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Lars Meurling, Bromma marketing director, said it is \u201cobvious\u201d that a level of optimism currently exists in the sector. \u201cI hear it in conferences I have visited recently, I read it in available market data and I see it in our order intake,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Meurling added that the replacement market is beginning to substantially contribute to Bromma\u2019s orders and available market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been predicting this for some time now and are well prepared to support our customers when the need arises,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bromma said that robust order intake, in line with signs from other industry sources, signals a positive future outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crane spreader company Bromma has seen both its sales and order intake grow during the first six months of this year in comparison to the same time in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}