Fourth generation Dutch trailer manufacturer, Broshuis, will deliver 39 heavy equipment transporters (eight-axle pendular axle semi low loaders) to the Dutch Ministry of Defence after successfully tendering for a major supply contract.
The trailers will be deployed in the transportation of Dutch Defence vehicles, such as Leopard 2A8 tanks, which the Ministry Dutch intends to purchase.
Under the contract, Broshuis will also supply Dutch Defence with 40 medium equipment transporters (low loaders), 18 semi low loaders, 11 flat trailers and 38 four-axle drawbar trailers.
Broshuis will also be responsible for maintenance and support over a 15-year period.
The new order is part of a Dutch Defence program to replace its existing truck-trailer combinations, for which Broshuis supplied the trailers in 2005.
Broshuis was named as the best candidate under an intensive tendering process, meeting all required criteria. This contract extends Broshuis’s long-standing partnership with Dutch Defence, which commenced in 1992. It has also supplied NATO countries, including the US and UK Armed Forces, with trailers.
Approx. 30 per cent of Broshuis’s trailers are built for defence purposes, with 70 per cent for the civilian market.
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