“We don’t find too much argument between whether we should use a reachstacker or a FLT. It is usually clear.<\/p>\n
Where we can guide our customers is whether they should change from a counterbalance machine to a straddle carrier or a RTG rather than between reachstacker and forklift. And in Kalmar we have a complete product range. That means that we don’t try to push any specific product to a customer. More we try to look at what’s best for the individual customer.”<\/p>\n
Dan Johansson spells out the economic case for his machines: “Svetruck is the most expensive forklift you can buy but today people look at the lifecycle cost too:<\/p>\n
how much does it cost to live with the product, what does it cost per running hour? And if they buy a forklift today and drive it for one shift daily or 2,000 hours annually, and they run it for 10 years at least, then it becomes very important, not whether it costs x thousand pounds to buy but what does it cost to live with.”<\/p>\n
Fuel and tyres are excluded: “If you have a Cummins, a Volvo or a Scania engine they have about the same kilowatt rating and they will record more or less the same consumption. And of course it depends on the driver and whether you have gradients on the site and so on.”<\/p>\n
In effect, the cost per running hour is largely comprised of spare parts and servicing. Savvy terminals will gauge this stringently and feed it into their ROI measurements. The terminal will have an account on each machine and can see that it was driven for 15,000 hours before the gearbox was changed and for 20,000 hours before an engine change. If they see they are coming up to a certain number of hours then they may decide to change the whole unit because they know that it will cost _5060,000 just to change the engine.<\/p>\n
“If a lift truck costs _400-450,000 it is extremely important to determine what you are going to use it for, ” says Johansson. “If you are a big terminal driving your machines for 5-6,000 hours a year then these calculations become very important. A small terminal driving just 7-800 hours a year may not look into it so closely.”<\/p>\n
All this does not take account of lease, rental or outsourcing options, topics PS will be examining in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So how does it all stack up in terms of cost efficiency? Dan Pettersson, Kalmar’ s product manager, says: ” We’ re not much into the argument between FLTs and reachstackers. Most of the world has recognised that the reachstacker is in most cases a more efficient and cost-effective handling solution when it comes to loaded containers. As to cost, per se, there is not much of a difference. The purchasing cost of the reachstacker is high but the running cost is lower. And you can specify a forklift with a lot of options, which makes it just as expensive as the reachstacker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","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=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}