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Superlift with Quality Mat
Quality Mat Company supplied mats for international heavy transport and lifting specialist ALE's 190,000 tonne-metre rated AL.SK190 super heavy lifter
AT extends Schmidbauer fleet
Schmidbauer has taken delivery of a Liebherr LTM 1350-6.1 all terrain crane. The Germany-based crane services company put the 350 tonne capacity machine to work for the first time at Mondi paper factory in Raubling, Bavaria
Bigge powers LR 1600
Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. used a Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler crane at a wind farm in Ohio, USA
Enter TopLift 2011
The 13th annual TopLift contest is here. Readers of International Cranes and Specialized Transport magazine are asked to choose their favourite lift of the year
Tim Maughan visits Freightplus in Osaka, Japan
Freightplus moves heavy machinery around the world. Tim Maughan visited the teeming city of Osaka to see how this highly specialized freight forwarder brings trucks, cranes and ships together in Japan
Tower crane sales alliance
Wolffkran Arabia, a joint venture between Dubai-based Kanoo Group and German crane manufacturer Wolffkran, has agreed to supply Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG) with machines and plant as part of a five-year purchasing and rental deal
Quayside delivery
Havator Transport moved eight templates from storage area to quayside for a major offshore oil and gas development in Norway
Dock manoeuvres for Terex hammerheads
Detyens Shipyards is operating two Terex SK 415 hammerhead tower cranes at its site in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The company specialises in the repair, refurbishment and conversion of government-owned and commercial vessels
Safety expansion in Spain
French tower crane safety device manufacturer AGS has set up AGS BTP Iberica division. The company has had a presence in Spain for a number of years through a distributor
Lifting people is the subject of new guidelines
Represented by the FEM, crane manufacturers have set out their position on using their products to lift people.
Deman in demand at Belgium port
Nova & Hesse-Noord Natie Stevedoring (NHS) installed two Deman electric overhead travelling (EOT) cranes in its new Antwerp, Belgium warehouse
Tall order for Essex
A barge-mounted Manitowoc 888 Ringer crawler crane, belonging to Essex Crane Rental Corp., helped replace a navigational lock gate at the John Day Dam on the Columbia River, USA
Dam supports
Ten Manitowoc cranes are working on the construction of a remote dam in South Africa. The De Hoop ('The Hope') Dam will be 81 m tall and stretch more than 1 km over the Steelpoort River in Limpopo, South Africa
Liebherr combination serves US port
A pedestal mounted Liebherr LR 1280 is providing increased capacity at the Port of Natchez, near the city of New Orleans, USA
Comansa takes the high road
Linden Comansa is helping to construct the Mexico Tuxpan highway which will link the country's capital city with the coast town of Tuxpan, in the Gulf of Mexico
Sea & Shore provides coastal care
Sea & Shore Projects used a Liebherr crawler crane to carry out coastal protection work in the harbour of Tristan da Cunha Island in the south Atlantic Ocean
Military support from Potain
Twelve Potain self erecting tower cranes and Grove all terrain cranes shared the majority of lifting work on a €50 million (US$70 million) redevelopment of a remote military training base in Bulgaria
Presidential appointment for GGR
GGR group helped install a luxury swimming pool for the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa in the Empty Quarter desert
High and long from Breuer & Wasel
Breuer & Wasel lifted two 125 tonne columns at an industrial gas installation in Duisburg, Germany as part of an enlargement project. Site owner Linde Gas Deutschland will use the 58 m long columns
Comansa jibs in Jordan
Joannou & Paraskevaides (Overseas) Limited (J&P) has put three Linden Comansa flat top tower cranes to work at the extension of Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan
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