Atlantic rowing record: Two men, one boat and over 300 miles rowed! In August 2014 Chris Walters and Elliott Dale set a new world record for crossing the Atlantic in a modern ‘open class’ pairs boat. They rowed 3246 miles from New York to the Isles of Scilly, raising money for a Children’s Hospice.
Containerlift were pleased to have been a part of this amazing challenge, providing the UK container transportation with a Containerlift vehicle, shipping the container to New York, arranging the customs handling to get the container to New York and then back in the UK on its return.
Shipping containers offer many advantages for transporting high value or sensitive loads. With steel walls, floors and roof a shipping container is extremely secure. The container doors are easily locked and the load is protected from the weather.
A high value load transported within a shipping container on a Steelbro sidelifter takes safety and security one step further.
This added security offered by a Steelbro sidelifter was taken to the extreme in a recent high value load movement carried out by Containerlift. The job was quite straightforward, collect an empty 40ft container from Birmingham, lift it to the ground in Gloucester so two high value sports cars could be loaded and driver to North Africa to deliver the container and contents. Simple!
Containerlift’s Transport Director Richard Cleaver explained, “The customer was exporting two extremely expensive and rare classic sports cars. Delivering and transporting the two cars in a 40ft shipping container on a Steelbro sidelifter was the perfect solution for them. The Steelbro machine lifted the container to the ground enabling the customer to safely load and unload the vehicles eliminating the risk of damage.
The sports cars were also kept extremely well protected and secure en-route from the UK to Marrakech in Morocco. The driver accompanied the vehicle and load on the entire journey and once a shipping container is onboard the sidelifter it is impossible to open the container doors – the crane modules are in the way.
The only way to access the contents of a shipping container when on a Steelbro sidelifter is to either lift the container off or cut a hole in the side of the container. Neither can be carried out discreetly. The added transport security offered by a Steelbro sidelifter is something often overlooked but when carrying high value, dangerous or sensitive loads it is an extremely attractive benefit to the shipper.
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