DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
2000 NAVY PENTAGON
WASHINGTON, DC 20350-2000
OPNAVINST 4460.1B
N4
22 Apr 2016
OPNAV INSTRUCTION 4460.1B
From: Chief of Naval Operations
Subj: MANAGEMENT OF MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT AND SHIPBOARD
MOBILE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT IN NAVY
Ref: (a) SECNAVINST 5400.15C
(b) OPNAVINST 11240.8H
1. Purpose
a. To issue policy and assign responsibility for management
of Navy material handling equipment (MHE) and shipboard mobile
support equipment.
b. This instruction is a complete revision and should be
reviewed in its entirety. Changes include a more precise
definition of what is included under MHE to include limiting
applicable cranes to 30,000 pounds, removal of references to war
reserve stock for MHE and shipboard mobile support equipment,
clarification of MHE roles for all commands, and clarification
of programming and budgeting responsibilities.
2. Cancellation. OPNAVINST 4460.1A.
3. Definitions
a. MHE includes all self-propelled equipment approved for
use in storage and handling operations in and around warehouses,
shipyards, industrial plants, airfields, magazines, depots,
stocks, terminals, aboard U.S. Navy ships, and at expeditionary
bases, camps and job sites. It includes, but is not limited to:
warehouse tractors, forklift trucks, platform trucks, pallet
trucks, straddle carrying trucks, container cargo loader (K-
loader), afloat and ashore warehouse self-propelled wheeled
industrial cranes (up to 30,000 pounds capacity), shipboard
aerial work platforms, shipboard scissor platforms, and non-
powered shipboard pallet trucks.
