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A chance conversation in a pub in New Zealand twenty years ago between Containerlift’s former Managing Director, Doug Baker, and a friend started the Sidelifter revolution in the UK.
‘Why was the container not put on the ground?’ was the obvious question asked.
‘How can a loaded shipping container be lifted to the ground at an importer’s premises without expensive container handling equipment?’

‘Use a Sidelifter of course!’

What’s a sidelifter?

The conversation centred about the problems associated with an employee who fell from the back of a vehicle whilst the shipping container was being unloaded.
Sidelifters have been in regular use for almost forty years throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Twenty years later and Containerlift is leading the Sidelifter way in Europe. As the representative of the world’s leading Sidelifter manufacture, Steelbro, Containerlift own their own fleet of Sidelifter equipment and rent, lease or sell machines to the market. Steelbro equipment is backed up in the UK with dedicated workshop facilities, extensive spare parts held in stock, mobile service units, Steelbro trained technicians and instructors and replacement equipment at hand. Containerlift is now the largest privately owned Sidelifter operator and supplier in the European market.
Containerlift’s service to the marketplace has been continually developing and has matured from a simple service and equipment supplier to a provider of complete solutions. Since taking on the mantle of Containerlift’s Managing Director in 2008 Doug Baker’s son, Joost Baker, has, whilst navigating the business through the worst recession in recent history, focused attention on offering ‘Container Movement Solutions’. Supplying the equipment, the service, the support; utilising road, rail and deep sea; freight forwarding and customs clearance; controlling the documentation and managing the supply chain; means we can offer our customers a cost effective, hassle free and seamless Container Movement Solutions.