How to make your life in storages simpler? Invest in modern lifting technologies. Others have already done that.

Polish logistics firms and their storehouses are in that moment, when they have to use a brand new science achievements if they want to keep opinion in their type of business. Of course, huge companies have new equipment for more urgent and advanced arrangements and orders and older, used devices for less profitable projects. Smaller companies have to use only brand new equipments to be competitive.

Lifting equipment is primary mechanism in all ports and high bay storages. Leading ports in Poland like Port of Gdańsk or Port of Gdynia with Gdynia and Gdańsk shipyards and big storages in main part of country are usinga few equipments allowed to use by polish law. First of them are cranes. In daily use we have a few general types: overhead, mobile and fixed. First one is generally used inside warehouses. It could be remotely operated by employee with permission.

It is supplied in a beam on which hook-and-line device is moving. Second is mobile crane. By definition, it might change workplace so it is mainly using outside. Last one is called fixed. They are the highest and can lift the heaviest freight. It is exploit outside because of its amount. Second type of lifting equipment is gantry crane. Generally used in ports and railway stations to storing and stowing cargos. First one was made of stone and wood by Germans and placed in Danzig (now it is polish town called Gdańsk) and it was built-it inside city fences. Now gantry cranes are always set with clear space inside. Because of that they are called portal cranes.

Last one, used inside, are configured with storehouse ERP systems an automated storehouse and retrieval system. It is totally automatic and could be used to locating, retrieving and replacing items in horizontal and vertical route. With the highest level of upgrate they could be used just in one way (only horizontal or vertical) or in a few ways at the same moment.

Without this mechanisms loading and stowing sizable tank boats might be truly time-consuming and costly. Investing in new technologies have to be the main piece in budgets of logistics enterprises, storehouses and harbours.