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Jerry McCormick
December 03, 2014 at 6:27 pmThat is the issue. You buy cranes which are performance-wise worse than their competitors, more expensive in the short, medium and long-run and you can´t use them. Of course they are full of data-collectors from China. What wonders me is that a lot of other terminals accepted them. The new series of IEBHERR-cranes work fantastic. SCT in Southampton is very happy with them and they give a much better prodcutivity than those from China. Think before you buy !