An Avant all-wheel drive compact loader has been supplied to the British Red Cross as part of a trailer-mounted package, complete with attachments, which is available for dispatch to any part of the world to help with the construction of mass sanitation systems.

The package, comprising a 750 model plus a digger arm, pallet forks and buckets, is based at the Emergency Response Unit warehouse in Warmley, near Bristol. This Red Cross facility, one of only six in the world, also houses other specialist equipment designed to support staff in the field for up to three months.

Upon reaching a disaster area, the equipment will be used to excavate the necessary trenches prior to the erection of kit-form latrines. British Red Cross Logistics and Warehouse Manager, John Cunningham, said, “The beauty of the machine is its ability to carry out a number of different jobs, hence minimising the high cost of air-freighting equipment to incidents we attend around the world.”