Narrow Aisle sales and marketing director John Maguire collects the BMHF Safety Award 2007 from Claire Mackay, business development manager of award sponsor NORCO. David Kendall, speaker at the BMHF Awards Dinner, looks on.

BMHF honours VNA forklift
STONELEIGH, United Kingdom
The British Materials Handling Federation (BMHF) presented its safety award to Narrow Aisle Ltd, for its latest generation articulated forklift, during the Materials Handling Live expo at Stoneleigh Park last month.
Narrow Aisle sales & marketing director John Maguire says the Flexi G4 forklift meets safety requirements in the US and European markets.
BMHF represents over 500 companies with an excess of 25,000 workers and a total turnover of GBP3.5 billion.

Konecranes grabs repeat Russian orders
HYVINKÄÄ, Finland
Konecranes has received repeat orders worth over EUR20 million (USD26.9 million) from Russia for port cranes and process cranes.
ZAO First Container Terminal in St Petersburg ordered two Panamax ship-to-shore container cranes, which will be delivered in 2008, while a Turkish construction company ordered process cranes for Russian steel mill PNTZ in Pervorouralsky.

Servisair operations support manager Graeme Castle (right) thanks Brian Connor of LFTS (left) for the Mitsubishi forklifts.

Manchester's 170-tonne Chinese takeaway
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Servisair has ordered nine Mitsubishi FG25N forklifts to load Cathay Pacific planes taking cargo from Manchester to Hong Kong and Dubai.
The 24/7 job involves transferring up to 170 tonnes of freight from trucks onto aircraft pallets and then onto the waiting plane and vice versa.
Servisair cargo terminal manager Sean Elder says the forklifts were needed urgently and Mitsubishi dealer Lancashire Fork Truck Services "sorted [them] out" in weeks, not months, like other dealers.