Dear Friends, welcome you back to RAM Spreaders News.
It has been a busy period at RAM since our last newsletter. We’ve been working on a number of key new innovations and developments to help increase our customer’s productivity and efficiency, which will further strengthen our geographical footprint.
Let’s become more energy efficient
Being energy efficient is a hot topic of discussion in our industry at the moment. Ports and Terminals are increasingly under pressure by various environmental guidelines to improve air quality around ports and terminals and reduce the amount of energy consumed.
At RAM we are driven to provide you with the best possible solutions to not only save energy but also boost productivity.
Our RAM SingFlex Tandem40 Headblock system designed for single hoist cranes is becoming very popular with more ports and terminals adopting the tandem spreader system. RAM SingFlex has also been identified as the best tandem system available by SIPG when comparing it to other tandem systems available.
A recent study shows that on average a port or terminal can save up to 15% energy when using RAM SingFlex™, compared to a single spreader operation. That equates to savings of up to €400,000 for a 1 million TEU terminal per year.
I am also pleased to report that our customers using SingFlex are seeing an increase in productivity, by moving more containers per lift cycle. In the long term this will help reduce the crane operational and maintenance costs per TEU.
The industry is now clearly moving towards higher TEU ratios and ‘tandem 40’ is quickly becoming a normal method of moving containers on a single hoist crane. Keeping with this theme, we have produced an article in this newsletter that reveals some interesting facts about using tandem over single spreader operations, and compares the energy saving benefits when using RAM SingFlex™.
Group meeting “Grabs & Spreaders”
Our Group Holding Company, SMAG, recently hosted an Agents meeting at their headquarters in Salzgitter Germany. It brought together Agents from both RAM and SMAG to combine their areas of sales expertise, and help provide an even stronger global presence of our group of companies.
The new combined group sales strategy provides our customers with an even wider range of products available that now includes various types of bulk handling grabs. The collaboration ensure even higher levels of service and support are now achieved and firmly establishes our group as the world’s leading lifting accessories supplier between crane and load.
Seeing us in person
If you attended TOC Europe in Rotterdam this year, you would have without doubt noticed our coffee stand at the entrance hall. The team served around 1600 cups of quality coffee over two days. I would like to thank all who helped, and to all who visited the coffee stand to enjoy a coffee and a chat.
Don’t worry, if you didn’t catch us at TOC Europe as we will be at the following events over the next few months:
September 25/27 | 2nd Baltic Sea Ports & Shipping | Latvia
November 13/15 | TOC Americas | Panama
November 27/29 | 20th Intermodal Africa | Ghana
Click on the PDF icon at the top of this posting for a roundup of our top news, which include:
Customer News – Americas | Black Sea Region | Africa & Middle East
Spreader Components Explained – Twistlocks
The Importance of Genuine Spare Parts
Case Study – Tandem Lifting Boosting Productivity & Reducing Energy Consumption
Internal Activities – Grab Meeting | Customer Training | Group Exhibition
And Finally – RAM 2420 Model celebrating 21 years in service