Reach stacker

A reach stacker is a wheeled, counterbalanced container handler with a telescopic, luffing boom and a top-lift spreader, used to stack and move laden and empty containers in a terminal yard, rail siding, or small port. It lifts a laden 40-foot box, around 45 tonnes in the first row, and can reach over the first row to the second or third, trading capacity for reach as the boom extends. The machine is flexible and needs no fixed rails, so it suits low-throughput terminals and intermodal yards, but it carries high front-axle loads onto the pavement and stacks lower than an RTG or ASC. Empty-container handlers are a lighter relative for empty stacks.