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Tor Line's new container concept
18th April 1975, Page 28
18th April 1975
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A NEW concept in container handling referred to as the Lifting Unit Frame (LUF) system is being developed by Tor Line, a North
Sea roll-on/roll-off shipping operator serving UK, Scandinavia and the Continent. Tor Line claims that the system enables four 6.1m (20ft) double-stacked containers to be loaded or unloaded in one move.
The unit frame is rolled on or off the vessel on a specially built slave trailer towed by a standard terminal tractive unit. The trailer has hydraulic rams for raising the loaded frame clear of the ground and it is fitted with 32 wheels on inter-connecting axles to allow for equal distribution of the total weight which can be over 101.6 tonnes (100 tons).