Unified team builds Translifter MK1
NewsFollowing 2.5 years of development work, Denmark-based rolling cargo equipment specialist NT Group has launched a new translifter, designated Translifter MK1.
Patrick covers up
Melbourne-based Patrick Shipping has embarked on a novel project to convert a number of ro-ro cassettes into the equivalent of curtainside trailers for use on its Bass Strait overnight freight ferries.
The cassettes were built in 1990-91 by Tasmania’s Doric Engineering under licence to Planmarine, whose ro-ro system was specified by the then ANL Searoad when it re-entered the Bass Strait trade with the vessels SEAROAD TAMAR and SEAROAD MERSEY. Through a series of mergers and takeovers ANL Searoad later became Coastal Express Line, then Holyman Coastal Express and now Patrick Shipping, part of Chris Corrigan’s Patrick Corporation.
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