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PORTUGAL AND SPAIN
Terberg Iberia continues to grow This is the second full year of Terberg Iberia and the company is now well-established in Portugal and Spain.
Terberg Iberia Manager Eric van’t Westeinde “Because of our growing market share and the demand for outsourced maintenance we have just decided to expand our service workshops in Valencia and Madrid, in Spain. To give technical support to tractor customers in Portugal we are now working with Resitul. They are a subsidiary of the Terberg Environmental group and supply refuse collection vehicles and road sweepers. Resitul have a fleet of service vans, as well as two workshops for larger repairs and can therefore offer Terberg tractor users in Portugal a rapid response, backed-up by overnight delivery of spare parts from the main warehouses at Benschop and Madrid.
We have supplied a lot of RTs and YTs to port operators, for example in Valencia, Santander, Cadiz, Barcelona, Las Palmas, Porto and Lisbon. Also a few YT-EVs, though the adoption of electric vehicles is still fairly slow in our region. Most distribution centres here use road tractors for shunting, which is slow and inefficient. So it is an exciting development that we are now breaking into this market with both YTs and BCs. These mostly go to subsidiaries of multinational companies which are already using Terberg vehicles in other countries. So I am looking forward to further growth in this industry and helping operators to work more efficiently and improve workplace conditions for drivers. the external workshops, and some customer workshops, to our training sessions. That ensures they are fully familiar with the latest developments. We recently updated our website, in-line with the standard Terberg design. Product range We supply a broad range of products: Terberg tractors, Terberg Kinglifter truck- mounted forklifts, Seacom trailers, Liftec translifters, Meclift telescopic forklift trucks for unloading containers and sfPORTEQ container spreaders. That means our customers can get a wide range of products and support from a single source. Operators here are very familiar with swap body carriers. Bartolini Courier has recently started working with them so we expect that market to grow. Steel industry Terberg RTs are widely used in the steel industry, which is concentrated in the north
There is a significant demand for the Terberg/ Zagro road/rail vehicles here. We have supplied a number of these to industrial sites with their own rail terminals. Recently we received an order
for two RR283s, the new model which has just been launched. Those will go to a steel mill.
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ITALY
Terberg Manuport busy in Genoa and beyond Director Fabio Fiorenzuola told us about how Terberg tractors are sold and supported throughout Italy “In 2004 my brother Paolo and I set up Manuport, and in 2018 we became part of Terberg. Our offices and
main workshop are based in Genoa, near the port. We also have a second workshop within the port, close to the RoRo terminals operated by our customers. Genoa has the largest port in southern Europe. We have customers throughout Italy, not just in ports but also in logistics and distribution, including large companies such as BRT, FedEx and Amazon. We support those customers with a fleet of our own mobile workshops. There are also authorised third- party workshops so even customers on the islands of Sardinia and Sicily get effective support. Twice a year we invite fitters from
of Italy. One of our long-standing customers is La Cisa, a specialist steel industry logistics operator operating in Europe and the USA. We recently supplied them with eight RT403s, our heaviest units, and Liftec translifters. They handle payloads up to 200 tonnes and La Cisa selected the units because of their power and reliability. Those tractors are now working at the Arcelor plant in Marseille, France.
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