New bays in port

The two new bays are located alongside two identical installations supplied by Stertil Dock Products almost 20 years ago. Within each bay, the equipment comprises a Stertil HP700-12 pit-mounted dock leveller, a WS574 dock-mounted fixed dock shelter, a roller shutter door, PE750 yellow dock bumpers, wheel guides plus LED dock and traffic lights.

Featuring a high-visibility yellow finish, the bays are used to simplify the loading and unloading of a range of road transport including articulated lorries, trailers and container vehicles.

The HP700-12 dock leveller has a 2700mm long platform, incorporating a hydraulically-operated swing lip to ensures safe access to vehicles for fork trucks during loading and unloading duties. Also, in common with the original installations, the 12t rating of the new levellers provides ample capacity for the movement of a diverse range of individual and palletised loads that include engine components, bottled goods and general freight.

"The original two loading bays have supported our customer’s operations extremely well so we were very pleased to clinch the order for two identical installations to help sustain his growing business,” says Andy Georgiou, general manager of Stertil Dock Products.