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Pyroban and Crown help 3PL play safe

News Story - 07 Jun 2007
SUSSEX, United Kingdom

Pyroban and Crown Lift Trucks have helped third party logistics (3PL) company CERT FMCG Logistics upgrade its Rotherham facility to comply with UK safety regulations. The Rotherham facility was built...

Briefs

News Story - 07 Jun 2007

Truckpoolen chooses Kalmar after two years STOCKHOLM, Sweden Kalmar has been awarded an order for 22 five-tonne forklifts from Truckpoolen i Göteborg AB after a two-year trial period which also...

Forklift hauls enormous halibut

News Story - 07 Jun 2007
DONEGAL, Ireland

The Sunday Mirror reported fishermen on a commercial trawler caught a halibut so big it had to be transported by a forklift. Stephen Cousins, a spokesman for the commercial trawler...

Inside the News - Edition #312

Inside the News - 31 May 2007

Forkliftaction.com this week welcomes Karen Harverson to the editorial team. Karen brings significant experience, including a stint with South Africa's largest trade publication, Engineering News. There, she reported on a...

Hu-Lift releases new products

Advertisement - 31 May 2007

Based on requirements out of domestic and international market, Hu-Lift adopts new advanced technologies and ceaselessly updated and improve old product series, successfully pushes series of new products into market in recent period, including electric pallet trucks, DC/AC electric forklift, electric stackers etc. With the same quality and function of original products, the new series is with more reasonable designs, beauty modeling and superior performance.

Queensland Materials Handling Show

Advertisement - 31 May 2007

In its second year, Queensland Materials Handling will showcase a collection of the industry's biggest names when it runs from June 19 to 21 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre...

Linde centre brings forklifts up to speed

News Story - 31 May 2007
ASCHAFFENBURG, Germany

Linde Material Handling's single largest investment for efficient product development in five years was officially launched in Aschaffenburg last Friday. The EUR10million (USD13.4 million) new development centre, at the 294,000...

Annual Meeting for CITA & ITA

Advertisement - 31 May 2007

Asia's Biggest Professional Forklift&Parts Exhibition Shanghai--CITA 2007 3nd China International Forklifts & Parts Fair (Shanghai) On May 21-22, 2007, the annual meeting of CITA (Power Industrial Truck Technical Institution of China...

Dubai’s SkyCargo soars high

News Story - 31 May 2007
CAIRNS, Australia

Ram Menen, Emirates Airline's award-winning air freight division's divisional senior vice president for cargo, was in Cairns last week for the 2007 Australian Federation of International Forwarders' annual conference. He spoke to Forkliftaction.com News reporter Christine Liew in an exclusive phone interview. "We are extremely serious and focused on cargo." Ram Menen said. "More than 20 per cent of the airline's business actually comes from cargo." For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007, Emirates SkyCargo's fleet carried 1.2 million tonnes of cargo, surpassing its record of one million tonnes carried in the previous fiscal year. SkyCargo said in an April 26 statement that its revenue for last financial year was AED5.4 billion (USD1.47 billion), 19 per cent or AED874 million (USD238 million) higher than the year before. Emirates SkyCargo's revenue and freight capacity had been growing 20 to 25 per cent annually since the airline's inception in October 1985, Menen said. A past president of The International Cargo Association, Menen has headed SkyCargo since its establishment. Today, SkyCargo's fleet of 100-plus planes flies to more than 80 cities worldwide. "We move more palletised cargo all over than lots of airlines. We have an all wide-bodied fleet, which allows palletised movement all across our network, unlike a lot of other passenger airlines that tend to have narrow-bodied airplanes operating regionally out of their hubs. "Nine of our 103 planes are freighters. We have a further 21 new wide-bodied production freighters on order for delivery over the next four to five years," Menen said. This month, SkyCargo announced that the first of three Boeing 747-400ERF aircraft, being wet-leased from Netherlands-based global express and mail delivery services company TNT, would be delivered this week. SkyCargo will also dry lease two aircraft from Guggenheim Aviation Partners for a 10-year term. The aircraft, which will be operated by TNT, will be delivered in July 2007 and February 2008. SkyCargo also ordered 10 Boeing 747-8 freighters at the Farnborough Air Show in England last year. Menen credits Dubai's infrastructure for SkyCargo's success. He said the Dubai Government started a distribution network when it established Emirates in 1985. "[Dubai] is a city that is being built on fast forward mode. When the government set up the airline, [Emirates] probably catalysed Dubai's growth. Later, in the 1990s, Dubai started catalysing our growth. It's a very happy relationship." The Dubai Government has allocated 140 sq km of land to establish the Dubai World Central International Airport. To be completed by 2017, the airport will have six parallel runways, three passenger terminals and eight concourses capable of handling 120 million passengers a year. Twenty-five sq km of the land had been set aside to create Dubai Logistics City, next to the Jebel Ali Free Zone. Slated for operations at the end of 2007, its air cargo capability would be 12 million tonnes a year. The largest air cargo volume currently handled, about 3.6 million tonnes a year, is by Memphis International Airport, in Tennessee, USA. "The airports and ports are not growing fast enough. We know passenger numbers and air cargo are growing. [Dubai World Central] will be the world's largest airfield. Click here to read more

Oshkosh names JLG president

News Story - 31 May 2007
OSHKOSH, WI, United States

Oshkosh Truck Corp has named Craig E Paylor as president of JLG Industries Inc. Paylor was JLG's senior vice president of marketing, responsible for business development, sales, marketing, customer service...

Kiwis to launch driverless forklift

News Story - 31 May 2007
AUCKLAND, New Zealand

New Zealand start-up company Inro, based in Auckland, is on the threshold of producing the world's first driverless forklift for use in warehousing work. While AGV (Automated Guided Vehicles) have...

For Sale: Magnificent Traditional Motor Cruiser

Advertisement - 31 May 2007

M.V. SALTWORKS Magnificent Traditional Motor Cruiser. Exceptional Sea Boat. LOA 44ft, Beam 14.5ft, 27tons. Spotted Gum Plank Hull. Mercedes 240HP Diesel perfect condition. 7.6kva Onan E series Generator. Complete range...

Doosan eyes higher Chinese sales

News Story - 31 May 2007
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of

Construction equipment and forklift manufacturer Doosan Infracore Co Ltd aims to raise its annual sales in China to about USD3.24 billion by 2010. According to a SinoCast China Transportation Watch...

Telehandler Briefs

News Story - 31 May 2007

Gehl montage features at Miller Park WEST BEND, WI, United States Gehl Company has entered into a multi-year sponsor agreement with American baseball league team Milwaukee Brewers. A new entertainment...

Finding the right person for the job .....

Advertisement - 31 May 2007

Is there a battery supplier in my overseas market? Find it here ...Who can supply the spare parts for my forklifts? Find it here ...Can I find an attachment dealer close to my shop...

Software helps Combilift cut development time

News Story - 31 May 2007
MONAGHAN, Ireland

Use of advanced software has allowed Combilift Ltd to achieve an average 40 per cent reduction in forklift product development time. Combilift uses a range of SolidWorks products, including three-dimensional...

High-reach forklifts sold to Saudi Arabia

News Story - 31 May 2007
TIPTON, United Kingdom

Saudi Arabian building materials group Al-Fozan has ordered five Flexi HiMAX articulated forklifts to work in its Qatar and Bahrain high-bay warehouses. Aiman Hawari, the project's principal consultant from the...

Movers & Shakers

News Story - 31 May 2007

McCONNELLSBURG, PA, United States JLG Industries Inc, a subsidiary of Oshkosh Truck Corp, has announced several key leadership changes. Oshkosh executive vice president Charlie Szews praised the JLG staff (below...

Forklift driver’s son is world’s whiz kid

News Story - 31 May 2007
REDRUTH, United Kingdom

A forklift driver's wife has claimed a world record for the fastest birth. Claire Radbone, of Redruth, Cornwall, had given birth to a 7lb 10oz son, Jamie, within 60 seconds...

Ed Somand, Toyota Material Handling USA Inc

Industry Profile - 31 May 2007
IRVINE, CA, United States

As fleet services manager for Toyota Material Handling USA Inc (TMHU), Ed Somand is often on the road. When he's not visiting customers in the field, Somand works from his home office. The father of two says forklift users are increasingly interested in fleet management systems.

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