by admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News, Ports & Terminals
Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has received an order from Associated British Ports (ABP) for two electric Terex® Gottwald Model 8 portal harbour cranes in the G HSK 8424 B four-rope grab variant. The leading British port operator has ordered the two machines for its...
by admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) has taken delivery of two multi-purpose high-speed mobile cranes to augment its fleet of vessel handling equipment in anticipation of an increase in container traffic at the country’s ports. The Liebherr cranes, each...
by admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Manufacturer News
With the steel beams each ranging in weight between 50 and 70 tonnes, a specialist crane had to be constructed at the site to lift them into place. The Liebherr crawler crane is capable of carrying up to 350 tonnes and was brought to Cornwall on 13 articulated...
by admin | Jun 25, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News
Crew members from Taylor Crane and Rigging in Coffeyville, Kansas perform a tandem lift at a Travel Plaza in Parsons, Kansas with All Terrain cranes. Storm caused the canopy to fall off its supports and onto diesel pumps. The cranes hoisted the canopy off the diesel...
by admin | Jun 24, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos
In 2006, Panamanians approved a referendum to expand the Panama Canal, doubling its capacity and allowing far larger ships to transit the 100-year-old waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific. Work began in 2007 to raise the capacity of Gatun Lake and build two new...
by admin | Jun 23, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Manufacturer News
Jim Smith Contracting, a heavy highway contractor based in Grand Rivers, Kentucky recently purchased three new Link-Belt 80-ton (72.5 mt) 138 HSL lattice crawler cranes to keep up with the additional bridge work and road construction underway for the new Interstate 69...
