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nbmsports · 1 year ago

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As the West surges toward electric cars, here's where the unwanted gas guzzlers go

Cotonou, Benin CNN — Standing on the stony ground in the bustling Fifa Park car lot, Rokeeb Yaya is haggling over the price of a dark red car. It is one of a couple hundred vehicles, parked in long lines stretching out across the vast lot – some shiny and new-looking, others dented and dusty. The car Yaya has his eye on, a 2008 US-built Ford Escape, is on sale for around $4,000. It’s relatively affordable – US cars are cheaper than most other brands in the lot – and he wants to upgrade from his motorbike to a car. He is not interested in the history of the vehicle, he said, only that he can afford it. But how this Ford ended up here – in one of the biggest car lots in the port city of Cotonou – helps tell a bigger story about how many of the West’s gas-guzzling cars are starting second lives in West Africa. The 14-year old Ford arrived in Benin from the United States last year, after being sold at an auto auction. Car records reviewed by CNN show it had three previous owners in Virginia and Maryland, and has logged over 252,000 miles on the road. It had one previous recall for its power steering, but unlike some of the other cars on the lot, it arrived in a relatively sound condition – it hadn’t been in any reported accidents. This aging SUV is just one of millions of used cars that arrive every year in West Africa from wealthy countries such as Japan, South Korea, European countries and, increasingly, the US. Many of these end up in Benin, one of Africa’s top importers of used vehicles.

The stream of used cars heading to West African ports is only expected to increase with the West’s shift to electric vehicles. As wealthy countries set aggressive goals to move consumers towards electric vehicles to cut planet-warming pollution, gas-powered cars won’t necessarily go away. Instead, many will be shipped thousands of miles away to developing countries like Benin, where populations are growing, along with demand for used cars. Experts say the effect will be to divert climate and environmental problems to countries that are the most vulnerable to the climate crisis, undermining their own attempts to cut planet-warming pollution. The global market for used light-duty vehicles grew nearly 20% from 2015 to 2019, when more than 4.8 million were exported. There was a slight dip in exports in 2020 when the Covid pandemic started, but numbers are now “growing quite rapidly,” United Nations Environment Programme official Rob de Jong told CNN. The US exports about 18% of the world’s used vehicles, according to UNEP data. These travel all over the globe, including to the Middle East and Central America, but many go to Nigeria, Benin and Ghana. Some of these are salvaged cars that have been in accidents, were flooded, or are just too old – which get auctioned off for parts. Others are whole used cars that US car dealers are looking to offload.

“A lot of them are going to be two- to five-year-old Hyundais, Toyotas, sedans,” said Dmitriy Shibarshin, marketing director for West Coast Shipping, a company that specializes in shipping cars internationally. “It’s mostly the economy cars that get shipped there.” Shibarshin’s company and others are “like FedEx” for cars, he said. His company usually specializes in higher-end vehicles, but also ships cheaper cars. In major African countries like Kenya and Nigeria, more than 90% of the cars and trucks are used vehicles from overseas. In Kenya, where de Jong is based, the vehicle fleet has doubled every eight years; streets that used to be devoid of cars are now jammed with traffic, he said. There is a tremendous appetite for these used vehicles. “You have a very young population that’s getting richer and richer by the day,” said Etop Ipke, the CEO of Autochek Africa, an online marketplace for cars. “The first thing they want to do, as they can afford things, is some mobility,” he said. But, unlike in the US, few prospective buyers have access to credit, so new cars are often out of reach. “That is fundamentally the reason why we’re not able to improve the quality” of cars sold, Ipke said. “It’s not like people want to drive used cars; it’s an affordability issue.” Experts say demand for used cars could explode further as the take up of electric cars in the West increases the supply of used cars to African countries. Nearly one in five vehicles sold globally this year will be electric, according to the International Energy Agency, compared to less than 5% in 2020. China, Europe and the US are leading the EV market, the agency said. In states like New York and Florida, where consumers are buying more EVs, dealers are increasingly looking overseas as a place to sell their older gas-powered models, according to Matt Trapp, a regional vice president at the huge auto auction company Manheim. Those states also have robust port operations, making them an ideal place to ship used cars to Africa. “It’s setting up a really complementary dynamic,” Trapp told CNN. “I’m not surprised to see how robust the export game is becoming,” Trapp said. “We’re going to see this dynamic more and more. When see demand in other markets, they will find a way to move the metal there.” From UNEP’s perspective, not all gas-powered cars are concerning – it’s the older ones, which tend to pollute more and be less safe, De Jong said. There’s evidence that the increasing demand in Africa for vehicles is actually resulting in more old and salvaged cars being shipped to the continent recently than there were 20 years ago. “What we see at the moment is a wide variety of used vehicles being exported from the global north to the global south,” de Jong said. “Not only is the number increasing, but the quality is decreasing.” In one section of Fifa Park, CNN finds a 16-year-old Dodge Charger, worn by age. “We just sold it for 3 million XOF ,” its seller, who did not wish to be named, said of the vehicle that arrived in Benin from the US two years ago. Parked across from the Charger is a 24-year-old Ford Winstar that was shipped to Benin from the US last year. It’s a cheaper alternative for low-income car buyers who cannot afford newer models. Car dealer Abdul Koura said that US and Canadian cars are very desirable to importers, who often bring in cars that have been in accidents, he told CNN. “They repair these cars and resell them to make a profit,” said Koura, whose space at Cotonou’s Fifa park includes more than 30 used vehicles imported from Canada.

Victor Ojoh, a Nigerian car dealer who frequents Fifa Park, told CNN that it’s often possible to tell the origin of a car by what’s wrong with it. “The cars that smoke are mostly from the US,” said Ojoh. “The cars from Canada are mostly flooded cars that start developing electrical faults.” Some imported vehicles are missing their catalytic converters, an exhaust emission control devices which filter toxic gasses. Catalytic converters contain valuable metals including platinum and can fetch up to $100 on the black market. Some of the cars are shipped without catalytic converters or have them removed by dealers upon arrival, Ojo said. Millions of cars shipped to Africa and Asia from the US, Europe and Japan are “polluting or unsafe,” according to UNEP. “Often with faulty or missing components, they belch out toxic fumes, increasing air pollution and hindering efforts to fight climate change.” Regulations aimed at reducing pollution and increasing the safety of imported cars into West Africa have tended to be weak. But attempts have been made recently to tighten them up. In 2020, Benin and 14 other members of the Economic Community of West African States bloc agreed a set of vehicle emissions regulations in the region, including an age limit of 10 years for used vehicles and limits on the amount of carbon pollution cars are allowed to produce. But it’s unclear how strictly they are being enforced.

UNEP officials, including de Jong, have also had conversations with US and EU officials about putting in new regulations that would crack down on shipping very old or junk cars to developing nations. Those conversations are in early stages and have yet to result in any commitments. Still, de Jong said climate change and global emissions have made the conversation around used cars “a different ballgame.” Increased shipments of older and more polluting cars are just as much of a problem for developed nations as they are for the developing countries where they are being driven, he added. “Today with climate change, it doesn’t really matter where the emissions are taking place,” de Jong said. “Whether in Washington, DC, or Lagos, it makes no difference.” Ipke doesn’t think that it is inevitable that Africa will accept all the old gas-powered cars the West no longer wants. He hopes that the transition to electric vehicles will come to the African continent as well, although that will require significant improvements to the charging infrastructure. “In terms of where Africa goes, the transition shouldn’t necessarily be from used cars to brand new combustion engines, it should be from used cars to EVs,” Ipke said. “I think the continent has to be prepared for EVs, used or brand new, because that’s the direction the world is taking.” For Yaya, however, this all seems a long way off. What brought him to Fifa Park, and to the old Ford SUV, was a lack of other options. “I can only purchase what my money can afford,” he said. Source Read the full article

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livingstyleup · 1 year ago

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shwanr · 2 years ago

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maxwellyjordan · 5 years ago

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Solicitor general files invitation briefs

U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco recently filed a bevy of briefs in response to the Supreme Court’s “invitations” to provide the justices with the federal government’s views on cases in which a petition for certiorari has been filed. If – as they overwhelmingly do – the justices follow the government’s recommendations, these petitions may not lead to many new cases for the court’s merits docket next term, because the government has recommended that review on the merits be granted in only two cases.

The government recommended a grant in Thole v. U.S. Bank, a case in which the justices have been asked to decide whether a participant in a pension fund can sue the fund managers when he has not actually suffered any financial injury. The plan participants in this case have thus far received all of their pension payments, but in 2014 they filed a lawsuit in which they alleged that the managers of the pension plan had pursued a too-risky investment strategy that led to $748 million in losses; the sponsors of the fund then made a large contribution to the plan, leaving it overfunded.

The district court dismissed the case. It ruled that there was no longer a live controversy because the plan was now overfunded. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upheld the lower court’s dismissal of the case. It ruled that the federal laws governing pension plans don’t allow participants to bring a lawsuit alleging that managers have violated their duties when the plan is in fact overfunded. It reasoned that plan participants are not, in such a scenario, the kind of plaintiffs whom Congress intended to allow to sue.

The plan participants went to the Supreme Court, which last fall asked the federal government to weigh in. The government’s brief urged the justices to grant review, describing the question presented by the case as an “important” one “that arises with some frequency.” And if review is granted, the government continued, the justices should also ask the plan participants and the defendants (a bank and its officials) to address whether the court of appeals should have decided whether the participants have a legal right to sue under Article III of the Constitution, which requires a “concrete” injury. The petition has been distributed for consideration at the justices’ June 20 conference.

The solicitor general recommended that review be granted – at least in part – in Opati v. Sudan, a case that stems from the 1998 attacks by al Qaeda on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed over 200 people and injured over 1,000 more.

The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally bars lawsuits against foreign countries in U.S. courts unless one of a few narrow exceptions applies. One of those exceptions, known as the “terrorism exception,” was originally enacted in 1996 and allows lawsuits against countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in 2004 that the exception only waived a foreign country’s immunity from suit, and did not provide the basis for a lawsuit, Congress in 2008 enacted a new terrorism exception, which specifically created a cause of action. Although the FSIA normally prohibits punitive damages, the 2008 amendments specifically allowed them; the 2008 amendments also indicated that any cases brought under the earlier version of the exception that were still pending should be treated as if they had been filed under the new version.

The case before the Supreme Court was filed by victims of the 1998 attacks and their family members against Sudan, which was designated a state sponsor of terrorism in 1993. A federal court awarded them over $10 billion in damages, including approximately $4 billion in punitive damages. On appeal, the D.C. Circuit vacated the punitive damages award, explaining that the current version of the terrorism exception does not allow punitive damages for conduct that occurred before this version was enacted.

Last year the plaintiffs asked the Supreme Court to review the D.C. Circuit’s decision vacating the punitive damages award; the justices then asked the federal government to weigh in. In a brief filed late last month, the federal government recommended that the justices grant review to decide whether the current version of the terrorism exception allows punitive damages for pre-enactment conduct. The government explained that the D.C. Circuit’s decision to the contrary was wrong and that the issue is an important one that “affects, in these cases alone, billions of dollars in punitive damages awarded to approximately 150 U.S. government employees and contractors murdered or injured in the line of duty who were targeted because of their service to the United States.”

However, the government recommended that the court decline to review another issue presented by the plaintiffs’ petition, involving whether the D.C. Circuit should have taken up the question at all when it was not an issue on which the court’s jurisdiction hinged.

The government also recommended a denial in Sudan v. Opati, a cross-petition in which the Sudanese government had asked the justices to take up a variety of questions decided against it in the lower court, including whether – for purposes of the terrorism exception – the term “extrajudicial killing” is limited to summary executions by state actors and whether the terrorism exception withdraws immunity for emotional-distress claims brought by victims’ family members.

The solicitor general made the same recommendation in Sudan v. Owens. In this petition, the Sudanese government had asked the justices to review the D.C. Circuit’s rulings on whether the plaintiffs had shown that federal courts had the power to hear the case under the terrorism exception, as well as the lower court’s holding on when injuries are caused by a defendant’s actions for purposes of the terrorism exception. The federal government urged the Supreme Court to deny review, telling the justices that there is no conflict between the D.C. Circuit’s decision and the rulings of either the Supreme Court or other courts of appeals; moreover, the government added, the D.C. Circuit’s analysis “does not warrant review based on foreign-relations concerns.”

The government’s recommendation in Poarch Band of Creek Indians v. Wilkes, involving tribal immunity, was more nuanced. The case arises from a 2015 car accident: Barbie Spraggins, an employee of an Alabama casino owned by the Poarch Band, was driving a casino pick-up truck when she hit a car driven by Casey Wilkes. Both Wilkes and Alexander Russell, a passenger in the car, were seriously injured; Wilkes suffered a traumatic brain injury. When Wilkes and Russell sued the tribe and the casino in state court, the Alabama Supreme Court allowed the lawsuit to go forward, holding that nonmembers can sue tribes for their injuries.

The tribe asked the Supreme Court to review the state court’s decision, and last fall the justices asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in. In a brief filed at the end of May, the government acknowledged that what it described as the Alabama Supreme Court’s “novel holding” was “flatly inconsistent” with the U.S. Supreme Court’s tribal-immunity cases.

However, the government added, the justices should not grant review at this time. First, it suggested, the tribe’s case is not the right one in which to consider whether the Supreme Court should continue to adhere to its prior rulings on tribal sovereign immunity. But more importantly, the government continued, the tribe is considering a change to its tribal code that would waive the tribe’s immunity for lawsuits like Wilkes and Russell’s. If that change is adopted, the government explained, “which could occur as early as June 6, 2019, the Court should grant the petition,” vacate the Alabama Supreme Court’s judgment, and send the case back to the state courts for further proceedings in light of the change to the law. But if the change is not made, the government argued, the justices should simply deny review, because even if the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision is wrong, it is an “outlier.”

The solicitor general also recommended that review be denied in several more cases:

In Airline Service Providers Associations v. Los Angeles World Airports, the justices have been asked to decide whether the “market participant” exception to federal pre-emption allows state or local governments to impose a rule that would otherwise be pre-empted on private companies even when the government is not buying anything directly from those companies. The case arose because companies that provide services at Los Angeles International Airport argue that a labor-peace provision in the agreement that they are required to sign to operate at LAX – which is owned and operated by the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles World Airports, a component of the city – is pre-empted by federal law. In his brief, the solicitor general recommended that review be denied. The solicitor general explained that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had correctly ruled that the market-participant exception is not limited to the purchase of goods and services, but it had not articulated the right test for the exception – and, the solicitor general added, it isn’t clear that the city and the airport are acting as market participants under the correct test. However, the government continued, because it is also not clear whether the service providers are challenging the 9th Circuit’s decision more broadly, or instead just its “failure to impose a procuring-goods-or-services limitation on the market-participant exception,” review should be denied. The petition has been distributed for the justices’ June 20 conference.

In the patent case Ariosa Diagnostics v. Illumina, the solicitor general recommended that review be denied. The question on which the justices have been asked to weigh in involves when unpublished disclosures made in a published patent application and an earlier application on which it relies enter the public domain. The parties to the case agree that the case hinges on the proper interpretation of a particular provision of federal patent law, but the government disagrees. Because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit did not address this question, and because the case involves the pre-2011 versions of the relevant Patent Act provisions, the government concluded, the justices should deny Ariosa’s petition. The petition has been distributed for the justices’ June 20 conference.

The government also recommended denial in Alabama Department of Revenue v. CSX Transportation and in CSX Transportation v. Alabama Department of Revenue, the most recent chapter in a long-running battle over taxes that the state levies on diesel fuel for railroads, but not for barges. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled against the state, which filed a petition for review last fall; the Supreme Court asked the federal government for its views earlier this year. The U.S. solicitor general told the justices that review is not warranted for either the state’s petition or a cross-petition filed by CSX Transportation: the 11th Circuit’s decision is correct, the solicitor general wrote, and it does not conflict with the rulings of other courts of appeals.

YPF v. Petersen Energia Inversora and Argentine Republic v. Petersen Energia Inversora center on the “commercial activity” exception to the FSIA, which applies when a foreign government acts as a private player in the market, and whether the exception applies to a lawsuit challenging action that is “inextricably intertwined” with another activity – such as expropriation – that is a sovereign act. The court called for the views of the U.S. solicitor general in January; the government recommended denial in a brief filed at the end of May. The government told the justices that the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit – holding that the exception does apply and allowing the lawsuit to go forward – is correct and does not conflict with decisions by any other court of appeals. The government acknowledged that the “scope of the commercial-activity exception is an important issue,” but it emphasized that this case is not a good one in which to consider that question, because it “raises case-specific issues such as the interpretation of Argentine law and” one company’s corporate bylaws. The petitions have been distributed for consideration at the justices’ June 20 conference.

Under federal patent law, a patent is infringed when someone “offers to sell” a patented invention “within the United States.” In Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions v. Renesas Electronics America, the justices have been asked to decide whether someone can be liable when he makes an offer in the United States for the sale of a patented invention outside the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said that he cannot, and TAOS asked the Supreme Court to review that ruling. After being asked earlier this year to provide the government’s views, the solicitor general recommended a denial. In the government’s view, a patent is infringed only when both the offer and the sale are made in the United States. Although the Federal Circuit’s interpretation is not correct in other contexts – because it would hold someone liable for an overseas offer for a sale in the United States – the government explained that the Federal Circuit’s judgment was correct in this case, and therefore review is not warranted. The petition has been distributed for the June 20 conference.

First Solar v. Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme is a securities-fraud case. The petition for review was filed by First Solar, Inc., an Arizona-based company that produces solar-panel modules. Investors sued the company in 2012, alleging that the company had failed to disclose, and then misrepresented the effect of, defects in the solar panels. Under the Supreme Court’s cases, a plaintiff in a securities-fraud case must show that the defendant’s fraud caused him to lose money. First Solar has asked the court to decide whether the investors can make this showing when the event or disclosure that caused stock prices to go down did not itself reveal any fraud. The government’s brief told the justices that the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, allowing the case to go forward, both is correct and does not conflict with the decisions of any other courts of appeals. The petition has been distributed for the June 20 conference.

In Toshiba Corp. v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, the justices have been asked to weigh in on the reach of federal securities laws when a securities-fraud claim is based on a transaction in the United States, but otherwise generally involves foreign conduct. After the Supreme Court asked for its views earlier this year, the government recommended that the petition be denied: It told the justices that the lower court’s decision – which left open the possibility that the case could go forward – was correct, and it added that there has not yet been a final judgment in the case, which means that there may ultimately not be a need for the Supreme Court to weigh in. The petition has been distributed for the justices’ June 20 conference.

In RPX Corp. v. ChanBond LLC, the question before the justices is whether a party that asks for review of a patent has the legal right to appeal the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s final ruling on that review to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit when the party has not been injured by the existence of the patent. In a brief filed in early May, the government urged the Supreme Court to deny review, telling the justices that the Federal Circuit’s ruling is correct and does not conflict with decisions of either the Supreme Court or any other court of appeals. The petition has been distributed for consideration at the justices’ June 13 conference.

In Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, the justices have been asked to review the Montana Supreme Court’s ruling that landowners can bring claims under state law to require companies to pay for the cleanup of hazardous-waste sites even when the companies are already working with the federal government to remediate the sites. The U.S. Supreme Court asked the federal government for its views last fall. In a brief filed in late April, the government told the justices that they should deny review: Although the Montana Supreme Court’s analysis was wrong, the government explained, it is unclear whether the U.S. Supreme Court would have the power to review the case, which has not yet gone to trial. And even if U.S. Supreme Court does have the power, the government continued, ARCO could win at trial, which would eliminate the need to take up the case at all. Despite the government’s recommendation, the case has been redistributed for the justices to consider for a second time at their conference on Thursday, which suggests that they are at least looking at it closely.

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fassicranes · 7 years ago

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A Fassi F65B.0.22 crane on Hino truck in Dubai

Fassi’s distributor in Dubai has installed a lightweight F65B.0.22 active hydraulic crane onto an equally light Hino 300 truck Dubai (United Arab Emirates) – Fassi’s Emirati distributor, Precision Machinery L.L.C., has recently mounted an F65B.0.22 active articulated crane on a Hino 300 truck at their premises in Dubai. The crane comes from Fassi’s light-duty range and is therefore a perfect match for the truck, manufactured by Hino Motors, Ltd. The combination will be shipped for the use of a customer in Kenya. What makes this combination so interesting is the fact that the crane is equipped with a hydraulic accessory for handling electrical poles and therefore the crane is well suited to the specific application of installing or maintaining outdoor electric powerlines. The F65B.0.22 crane has a lifting capacity of 6.12 tm and a hydraulic outreach of 7.3 m. (Courtesy of Precision Machinery L.L.C.)

Una gru di gamma leggera per un camion leggero: Precision Machinery L.L.C. allestisce una gru per autocarro Fassi F65B.0.22 active su un veicolo Hino 300 a Dubai Dubai (Emirati Arabi Uniti) – Precision Machinery L.L.C., distributore di Fassi per gli Emirati Arabi Uniti, ha recentemente allestito una gru articolata F65B.0.22 active su un autocarro Hino 300 presso la sua sede di Dubai. La gru, appartenente alla gamma leggera Fassi, rappresenta quindi la scelta perfetta per questo autocarro prodotto da Hino Motors, Ltd. La specifica più interessante del binomio, destinato a essere spedito in Kenya per utilizzo da parte del cliente finale, è la presenza di un accessorio idraulico per la movimentazione di pali elettrici, che rende questo modello particolarmente adatto per operazioni specifiche nell’ambito dell’installazione o della manutenzione di linee elettriche esterne. La gru F65B.0.22 ha una capacità di sollevamento di 6,12 tm e uno sbraccio idraulico di 7,3 m. (Per gentile concessione di Precision Machinery L.L.C.)

Le distributeur de Fassi à Dubaï a installé une grue hydraulique légère F65B.0.22 active sur un camion Hino 300 tout aussi léger Dubaï (Émirats Arabes Unis) – Precision Machinery L.L.C., distributeur émirati de Fassi, a récemment monté une grue articulée F65B.0.22 active sur un camion Hino 300 dans ses locaux de Dubaï. La grue est issue de la gamme légère de Fassi et il s’agit donc du choix parfait pour le camion fabriqué par Hino Motors, Ltd. La combinaison sera expédiée pour l’usage d’un client au Kenya. Ce qui rend cet ensemble si intéressant est le fait que la grue est équipée d’un accessoire hydraulique pour la manutention de poteaux électriques, par conséquent elle est bien adaptée à l’application spécifique de l’installation ou de la maintenance de lignes électriques extérieures. La grue F65B.0.22 dispose d’une capacité de levage de 6,12 tm et d’une portée hydraulique de 7,3 m. (Avec l’aimable autorisation de Precision Machinery L.L.C.)

Ein leichter Kran für einen leichten Lkw: Precision Machinery L.L.C. installiert einen Fassi-Ladekran F65B.0.22 active auf einem Hino 300 Lkw in Dubai Dubai (Vereinigte Arabische Emirate) – Der Fassi-Vertreiber für die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Precision Machinery LLC, hat vor kurzem auf seinem Firmengelände in Dubai einen artikulierten Kran F65B.0.22 active auf einem Hino 300 Lkw installiert. Der Kran gehört zum Sortiment der leichten Krane von Fassi und passt somit ideal zu diesem Lkw-Modell von Hino Motors, Ltd. Das Ganze wird schließlich an einen Kunden in Kenia gehen. Das Besondere an dieser Kombination ist die hydraulische Ausrüstung des Krans für die Abfertigung von Strommasten, die sich somit speziell für die Aufstellung und Wartung von Stromleitungen eignet. Der F65B.0.22 hat ein Hubmoment von 6,12 tm sowie eine hydraulische Ausladung von 7,3 m. (Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Precision Machinery L.L.C.)

El distribuidor de Fassi en Dubái ha instalado una grúa hidráulica ligera F65B.0.22 active en un camión Hino 300 igualmente ligero Dubái (Emiratos Árabes Unidos) – El distribuidor emiratí de Fassi, la empresa Precision Machinery L.L.C., ha montado recientemente una grúa articulada F65B.0.22 active en un camión Hino 300 en sus instalaciones de Dubái. La grúa pertenece a la gama ligera de Fassi, por lo que representa una elección ideal para este camión fabricado por Hino Motors, Ltd. El aspecto realmente interesante de este conjunto, el cual se expedirá a un cliente en Kenia, es que la grúa está equipada con un accesorio hidráulico para la manipulación de postes eléctricos, por lo que resulta particularmente adecuada para operaciones específicas en el ámbito de la instalación y manutención de tendidos eléctricos exteriores. La grúa F65B.0.22 tiene una capacidad de elevación de 6,12 tm y un alcance hidráulico de 7,3 m. (Cesión de Precision Machinery L.L.C.)

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thecasualfuryoffreedom-blog-blog · 7 years ago

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Getting off of the plane in Nairobi, Kenya, I inhaled probably the deepest breath of my life. At approximately 10 pm my crew landed into the capitol’s airport. It was a bit of a “culture shock” for someone who’s never left the United States. Taking in the scene, my eyes were drawn to the scores of Kenyan military soldiers patrolling the grounds of a port that seemed to be stuck in time (say, circa 1968?). After entering the dingy (and only!) restroom around, I was taken aback to discover they clearly resembled my elementary school bathrooms.

After entering the dingy (and only!) restroom around, I was taken aback to discover they clearly resembled my elementary school bathrooms from the late seventies. The hustle and bustle of the entire scene were slightly overwhelming for a lil’ ol’ Midwestern girl, such as myself, and I know this is cliche’ but for the first time in my life, I felt home. And it felt so good.

On our ride to the “retreat” center where we’d be staying for the night, I tried to take in every single inch of the city’s sleeping streets. Gasping silently as our van crept past a building on my right, I realized we had just passed Westgate Mall, where the barbaric terrorist attacks had taken place only two years prior. My thoughts, however, were disrupted when our driver stopped to allow a lonely herder “shoo” his goat herd across the intersection. That’s right, only in Kenya. (Well, and probably many other African countries!)

The following day, our crew, which consisted of 21 of the greatest, strongest women I’ve ever met in my life, boarded an enormous GI Joe-lookin’ army truck that would be providing our only transportation during our mission. Hmmm, I thought naively, Army truck? Just where are they taking us?…After roughly six hours bouncing around on the country’s only roads, those questions were quelled.

After settling in our “jungle cottages”, we then traveled to the village where we set up a makeshift medical site that provided our doctor, nurses, and pharmacists a place to see and treat thousands of local patients. This was about an hour and a half commute (one way) over dusty savannahs that stretched out 100 miles in any given direction it seemed, with Mount Kenya and its neighboring mountains vastly claiming the horizon.

Off to my left, a lone zebra jogged parallel to our mighty “tank”, kicking up clouds of dust. A few moments later, I spotted a few impalas, then a warthog or two among the acacia trees. Gosh, I’m really in AFRICA! If that was my “defining” moment of realization, it’s because I was completely unaware of the next scene to unfold.

The truck slowed to a tempered roll as almost out of “nowhere” celebratory singing by the Maasai tribal woman traveled on the warm, African breezes to proclaim and honor our arrival. One by one, these lovely Maasai women escorted each member of my team off of the truck, jubilantly raising their voices in praise and welcome. The sweetest music I’d ever heard. Now I’m REALLY in Africa!

We were gathered in the “yard” of a small, economical building that held a couple classrooms in what was the community’s only school. The student outhouses were newly refurbished (which I would later ascertain after pottying in the company of a couple chickens in a dilapidated wooden “shack”.) Children of every age giggled and waved shyly as they performed for us as if performing for a president. My heart was nearly bursting!

Over my stay in this grand, enchanting country, there would be oh, so many cherished moments that would be inscribed in my memory and heart forever: the worried faces of concerned mothers, the exhausted smiles of tribal elders, the rowdiness and often mischievous grins of little boys (who were not much unlike another little boy I know), the giddiness and playfulness of the girls- All touched me in a way that, when I think about how it all even came about, how none of it would have been possible just a year prior, made it that much more meaningful and precious.

After visiting a herdsman’s manyatta (Maasai house made of mud, dung, and grasses), I was thoroughly fascinated. To “peek” inside the life of a traditional Maasai family I was afforded the opportunity to observe what an evening of “normal” consisted of for them. Each individual family member, from walking age to 92 had a role. There were so much commotion and activity during our visit as our gracious hosts insisted we help with evening duties (eg: milking goats, showing the (very vocal) herds to their ‘pens’, sweeping the dust(?), etc…)

On the first day of our mission work, there was one lil’ girl who captured my attention. After noticing she was wearing only one ratty, tattered shoe, I asked, “Girl, ya lost a shoe!” (I agree. In hindsight, that was rather rude.) She smiled shyly and responded part English/part Swahili, “Nah, it not LOST. My friend (something, something) shoe!” And she pointed to her BFF sitting next to her who was, naturally, wearing the “lost” shoe. I was taken aback as she went on to explain that since they walk nearly two hours to school and back every day and since her friend didn’t have any shoes, she was sharing with her.

These two blessed girls sat before me, fidgeting with the soles that were hanging on by a thread- literally and my heart dropped. The week I was getting ready for my Africa trip, my teenage son had just blown a couple hundred on a pair of gym shoes. He proudly displays his “trophies” on a rack in his room, each prize neatly packed in the boxes they came in. Polishes and rags at the ready. That moment with these girls, I felt so ashamed. But she beamed at me, gesturing that I lay in her lap while she spent the next several hours braiding my hair.

This trip allowed me to form relationships and bonds that will last a lifetime. The women and men that I met showed me the beautiful, compassionate side of humanity. The side I’m rather fond of. I will always be grateful to each and every one of them.

The last night, I crawled under the soft blankets inside our (luxury) tents, where I would’ve stayed a month if I could. It was well after midnight and we had just gotten back from a thrilling safari.

I unzipped the windows, turned off the light, and snuggled into my pillows. As I lie there looking up at the silhouettes of trees, the darkness gave way to the night sounds most unfamiliar to these Midwestern ears. Just as I was fading into my final sleep in Kenya, a shrill, piercing shriek sat me straight up in my cozy bed! “Oh, yeah,” I thought, my eyes searching out into the night. “I’m really in Africa.”…And with Godspeed and good fortune, I will really be returning soon.

Down in Africa Getting off of the plane in Nairobi, Kenya, I inhaled probably the deepest breath of my life.

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