by admin | Dec 9, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Offshore News, Ports & Terminals
In September 2016 mv Happy Sky has has transported two large STS container cranes from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to Vigo, Spain. Until 2015, the container cranes served the then Home Terminal of container handling company ECT in Rotterdam. The cranes were sold to...
by admin | Dec 8, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
SALES of excavators and heavy trucks in China surged nearly 73 percent last month as heavy machinery companies tapped a construction boom, helping them reap profits. In China, sales of new excavators surged 71 per cent in September amid infrastructure pickup In...
by admin | Dec 8, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News, Manufacturer News
When Shinui Petra, one of South Korea’s largest construction equipment rental companies, was asked to supply a crane for a complex and compact assembly project for Young-gwang Yak-su Wind Power, there was only ever one choice—the MLC650 from Manitowoc, the new rising...
by admin | Dec 8, 2016 | Equipment Rental News, Manufacturer News
In an important development for the industrial equipment sector, 600SA, a division of Eqstra Industrial Equipment (“EIE”), will be the official distributor of Oil&Steel aerial access platform lifts for overhead work in South Africa as from 1 October 2016. The...
by admin | Dec 7, 2016 | Equipment Rental News
A Bigge Link-Belt telescopic truck crane is onsite and lifting wreckage as part of efforts at the fire-ravaged warehouse in Oakland, California. The death toll from the massive weekend fire at an artists’ collective stands at 36, authorities say.
by admin | Dec 7, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News, Manufacturer News
The biggest crane in the UK will soon be heading to Manchester to help build the Ordsall Chord Bridge. The Weldex owned Liebherr LR 11350, a 1,350 tonne beast, will be in the city in February to lift and place the ‘arch’ of the bridge to link Piccadilly and Victoria...
by admin | Dec 6, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Energy News, Mining News
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — India’s Adani Enterprises Ltd. plans to begin construction work on Australia’s biggest coal mine in the middle of next year, an executive said Tuesday. Work would begin on the Carmichael coal project in Queensland state’s...
by admin | Dec 6, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News, Manufacturer News
The 4.5 million Euro project started with drilling piles and setting up the foundation and substructures for the bridge superstructure. The 750-ton Liebherr All Terrain supplied by Hofmann Kran was hired to set the 40-ton longitudinal bridge railings. The 750-tonner...
by admin | Dec 6, 2016 | Equipment Rental News, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
A AKM Autokranvermietung GmbH crane operator was lifting an eight-ton metal roof for a building in Plauen, Germany when the Liebherr All Terrain mobile crane he was operating tipped over. As seen in the picture, two construction workers were in a scissor lift working...
by admin | Dec 6, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Energy News, Equipment Rental News
ALE Heavy Lift has used its new widening trailers to complete a transformer move from Stafford to Ellesmere Port, UK, in November. The transformer, weighing 231t, was moved in three stages over three days, from Stafford to Congleton, then to Kelsall and, finally, to...
