Advanced container handling
The engineering and shipbuilding firm. Anchor-Dor-man, is making its contribution to the export drive with unique self-loading container transport designed and built at the firm's Nelson plant.. The unit has been developed and built by the company to overcome container handling difficulties experienced by New South Wales Railways. The “Conporter Mk 2" is the more advanced version
of the original Conporter Mk I, which has been in wide use in New Zealand, Australia. Papua New Guinea and Fiji for four years. Exports to the Asian areas of the Mk 2 will also be sought by the company. ' ’ The first Conporter Mk 2. sent to Australia as a prototype. has since been sold there. The company feels the Australian market has a potential of 50 sales. The
price of each unit is about 5175.000. Company spokesmen say that existing container loaders cannot be used for handling containers to and from New South • Wales railway waggons because the containers are stacked tightly end-to-end. This means that lifting chains for the bottomlifting machines can not be used. The Conporter is a toplifting machine, which attaches to corner pockets at
the top of the containers. Other features allow the machine to work closely to railway stock. The foot of the stabiliser arms on the machine can rotate to select the best position to allow the unit to work at close quarters to rail or road transporters. Not only can it seif load but it can transfer a container from a railway waggon to a truck on its off-side and can stack containers two high. It is designed to lift 22 tonnes, the normal maximum weight of a standard 6m container. The vehicle-unit is completely self-contained, with its own diesel-driven medium-pressure hydraulic power pack, so that it can be used with any tractor unit. It will be available in either a close tandem, widespread tandem or tri-axle configuration and can travel anywhere a conventional truck and semi-trailer unit will travel, according to company, information.
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Press, 14 July 1982, Page 30
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