6. Container handlers
This category covers various types of equipment specially designed to handle containers used mainly in maritime and approach transport, and measuring 6 m (20 ft) or more in length.
It includes :
high-capacity front-end forklifts ;
stackers, similar in principle to all-terrain forklifts with telescopic booms, but with greater capacity and fitted with suitable equipment instead of forks;
straddle carriers with gantry chassis for straddling loads.
6.1 Front loaders
The general architecture of these machines is directly derived from that of conventional cantilever forklift trucks, but their capacity typically ranges...
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