A new way to destuff containers
January 1st 2011 The Mobicon offers an alternative to destuffing containers using mobile yard ramps,
says UK distributor Impact Handling
Impact Handling is offering a different method to destuff
containers. The Mobicon, manufactured by an Australian firm
of the same name, is suitable for companies that are stuffing
and destuffing in the region of 10 to 150 containers a week.
The front end of the Mobicon is engine driven and the back
end is like a trailer. The Mobicon picks containers up that have
been left by trucks in a yard and allows them to be unloaded at
ground level. Time is the key advantage over the use of mobile
yard ramps to destuff containers argues Impact Handling.
Regional sales manager, Glyn Richards explains: "There are lots
of warehousing and transport companies within 20/30 miles of a
port who could use a Mobicon.
"The Mobicon allows the container to be unloaded on the floor
and so the productivity goes up. Guys are able to access the cargo
more easily and it is also
safer because workers are
not working at height
and lift trucks do not
need to drive up a
ramp."
Richards says the
Mobicon operates well
on rough surfaces while
top-lift forklifts can require money to be spent on surfaces to get
the most out of them. That said, he sees the different equipment
as carrying out contrasting jobs. For example, the Mobicon will
not stack containers.
One further advantage Richards is keen to highlight is
flexibility.
"The Mobicon allows customers to put a number of
containers down in a yard and destuff according to priority. If a
user has one mobile ramp and is destuffing a container and
another container arrives that has greater priority, the user has a
headache. Either the priority container waits until the other
container is emptied, or a half emptied container is removed and
a new one put on. As the Mobicon leaves the containers on the
ground, there is not the same
problem." More articles from Impact Handling: | 
