Second-hand, not second class

“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.”