Intermodality\u2019s Nick Gallop told a Konecranes seminar in Birmingham, UK that all too often he meets customers who have put down the surfacing that they think they need to support the equipment, instead of what is appropriate.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, from a project development point of view it seems to have a disproportionate amount of time spent on it and each time we have to start from a blank piece of paper,\u201d he told delegates.<\/p>\n
Mr Gallop called on equipment manufacturers to take ownership of the problem and start specifying optimal surfacing for specific equipment types.<\/p>\n
\u201cA little bit of TLC and R&D from crane manufacturers and contractors to try and bottom some of these things out would help,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA number of times I have seen the contractor going \u2018it\u2019s not up to us it\u2019s up to the crane supplier on what concrete we need to put underneath the crane\u2019. Then the crane supplier says \u2018it\u2019s not up to us, it\u2019s up to the contractor to determine what they think our cranes should sit on\u2019. The clients are left asking \u2018what do I do here, how do I knock heads together?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a gulf in understanding between those three sides of the triangle as to what ultimately should be put down to last well and to interface well with the handling equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The \u201cMexican standoff\u201d between the contractor, equipment supplier and client on yard surfacing must be addressed to stop the perennial problem of premature cracked hard standing, a freight transport consultant has warned.<\/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":[62,63],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952","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=8952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8952"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}