In the second quarter of 2006, Consulting Agency Market Advice Ltd. carried out a survey of experts from the enterprises that use lifting and strip lashing equipment in manufacture in order to study main features of the use of lifting and strip lashing equipment in manufacture and prospects of their use. Questioning of experts of the companies that use lifting and strip lashing equipment was performed by the method of profound telephone interviewing.

 

1.      Types of lifting and strip lashing equipment used at the surveyed enterprises

2.      Services offered by suppliers and manufacturers of lifting and strip lashing equipment to the surveyed enterprises

3.      Types of transported and stored cargoes at the surveyed enterprises in 2005

4.      Volumes of transported and stored cargoes at the surveyed enterprises in 2005

5.      Main quality requirements to the lifting and strip lashing equipment made by the surveyed enterprises

6.      Ratio of foreign and domestic lifting and strip lashing equipment used at the surveyed enterprises

7.      The best manufacturers of lifting and strip lashing equipment in opinion of respondents from the surveyed enterprises

8.      Optimum purchasing prices of lifting and strip lashing equipment for the surveyed enterprises

9.      Basic conditions for cooperation with suppliers/manufacturers of lifting and strip lashing equipment at the surveyed enterprises

10.    Price-quality estimation of lifting and strip lashing equipment from Finnish manufacturers

11.    Main problems in operations of lifting and strip lashing equipment at the surveyed enterprises

12.    Annual needs of the surveyed enterprises in purchases of lifting and strip lashing equipment