Timber handling by straddle truck

摘要

Rapid progress is now being made in the loading and unloading of ships in Australian ports by modern mechanical materials-handling units, such as fork-lift trucks, mobile cranes and self-loading straddle trucks. The latter are particularly useful for the handling of bulk timber, piles, sawn timber, metal sheets and lengths of piping. In view of the urgent demand for the cargoes of overseas ships laden with timber, careful attention has been given to a more rapid method of unloading and transporting such cargoes to the various points of distribution.