23.06.2003

Last Tadanos for Marsh

UK crane hire company Marsh Plant has taken delivery of what is says is probably the last six 25 tonne capacity Tadano TL250E truck mounted cranes mounted on Mitsubishi carriers.

The cranes were shipped directly from Japan to Southampton Docks, already painted in Marsh Plant’s livery, and prepared at the company’s Havant depot by Tadano’s UK distributor, Cranes UK.
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The last six Tadano TL250E truck cranes sold in Europe

Marsh Plant’s operations director, Andy Honeywell said that there had been a certain amount of doubt as to whether the cranes would be delivered at all. Since placing the order over a year ago, Mitsubishi announced that it would no longer be supplying carriers for Tadano cranes, leading Marsh Plant to believe that its latest delivery are the last units to be produced under the Mitsubishi/Tadano agreement.
“This type of crane is becoming more and more scarce,” said Honeywell, “but we still see a future with truck mounted cranes and these six units have helped modernise the age profile of our fleet.”