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Liebherr Container Cranes has supplied two ship-to-shore container cranes to the Pampus Terminal at the Port of Norrköping, Sweden

Paramaribo in Suriname, South America will take delivery of its third Gottwald Generation 4 mobile harbour crane, while Irish Continental Group, Northern Ireland has ordered a Generation 6

Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) in Bangladesh has ordered six diesel-electric straddle carriers from Italy-based Terex Noell

Gottwald Port Technology GmbH has sold mobile harbour cranes (MHC) to Lebanon and Qatar which, it says, strengthens its position in the Middle East

The Port of Acajutla, El Salvador, will be the first container terminal in Central America to get a Terex Noell straddle carrier model NSC 634 H with hydrostatic drive

Shipbuilder Tersan Tersanecilik has installed what it believes to be the biggest overhead crane in Turkey

Liebherr Container Cranes has delivered a Super Post Panamax container crane to the Port of Tauranga, New Zealand

Saigon Newport Company (SNP) in Vietnam has awarded Cargotec a contract for a further six all-electric Kalmar E-One rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes

Grenland Havn in Norway has ordered a new mobile harbour crane from Gottwald Port Technology GmbH, a subsidiary of Demag Cranes AG in Germany

Gottwald has received an order for two G HSK 8332 B Portal Harbour Cranes. The units will be used for handling bulk materials in the new multi-purpose terminal for solid cargo in Dahej, in the province of Gujarat, on the west coast of India

Shuttlelift has developed a new wheel jacking technique and an automatic variable throttle (AVT) system for its SL and ISL gantry cranes

The slump in shipping and associated port activity has coincided with a move towards fuel efficiency and increased capacity. Euan Youdale discusses these trends with rubber tyred gantries in mind

Kalmar has been testing Agco Sisu Power 2011 compliant engines on its straddle carriers

Kalmar aims to strengthen its global presence in the ship-to-shore (STS) crane market by starting production and engineering in China. Until now, Kalmar's STS cranes have only been manufactured in Europe

Patrick Gillis, GG Crane Group president and managing director, was an engineer at Caterpillar for four years, at AEG for three years and then at Schneider before establishing a yacht leasing company and then one for expensive cars. In the 1960s Patrick's father, Gaspard, designed, patented and built three examples of the original design for the GG tower crane. Following his father's death in 2007, Patrick made it his mission to recreate his father's crane. He has redesigned, updated and patented it ready to become the "tower crane of the 21st Century."

Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company has ordered six Liebherr Megamax ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes and 10 rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes for the Jeddah North Container Terminal in Saudi Arabia

Two river ports in Latin America have bought Gottwald mobile harbour cranes to take advantage of untapped cargo handling opportunities. Integra Marine & Freight Services (IMFS) ordered a 100 tonne capacity HMK 260 E for operations at the port of Paramaribo, Suriname. Puerto Fenix, Puertos & Estibajes will take delivery of a 63 tonne HMK 170 E, destined for the port of Asunción, Paraguay

Cargotec will stop production at its Salo facility in Finland and reduce its wider workforce as part of a consolidation scheme. Some 270 jobs will be cut by reducing permanent and external contracts and not replacing retiring or resigning employees

Gottwald Port Technology GmbH in Germany has sold five of its G HMK 6407 mobile harbour cranes to ports in Chile and Colombia