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Seaborne grabs face a tough life

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Shipboard grabs experience very challenging conditions and manufacturers must supply reliable, high productivity designs, but at a price shi...

Dusting down grab design

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Grab handling remains the most cost-effective method of ship discharge but increasingly stringent environmental measures are placing greater...

Up for grabs: expert viewpoints

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BMI invited six leading European specialist grab suppliers to give their views on latest technical design trends, the current state of the m...

Grabs at the cutting edge

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Essentially a grab is a puppet. It is a mechanical device supported and controlled by an operator through the ropes. The basic design has no...

Getting to grips with scrap

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Operators can choose from a full range of grabs and grapples to accommodate their individual scrap handling requirements...

Get to grips with tough times

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Nobody has ever doubted the flexibility and efficiency of grab operations, but grab suppliers are having to comply with ever more stringent ...

Grabs – your flexible friends

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Grabs have become a permanent fixture in bulk handling operations and can be seen performing a great variety of tasks in ports, on board shi...

Grabs get more specialised

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Despite the trend towards the use of "universal grabs" on shipboard cranes, many grab operators are not convinced that employing one grab to...

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