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Freight Wings was charged with transporting a 2,200 tonne topside and rolling it onto a barge for a major offshore oil and gas project in India

With the help of a Terex CC 2500-1 lattice boom crawler crane, Riga Baumann lowered a tunnel boring machine, complete with cutter head, into position in Düsseldorf, Germany

Franz Bracht Kran-Vermietung unloaded a 500 tonne power plant generator from a barge on the River Rhine and placed it on a custom-built goods vehicle at the Port of Krefeld, Germany

Rental company Hewden in the UK used a 55 tonne all terrain crane in preparations for the royal wedding on 29 April

Eisele AG carried out a dual lift to reconnect two parts of Frankfurt, Germany after the former bridge was demolished more than a year ago. Traffic between Heddernheim and Eschersheim was severely disrupted since the demolition of the road bridge over the Nidda River in February 2010

Schmidbauer has added its muscle to the Munich art scene by helping to erect a 52 m high sculpture. The company used its 600 tonne capacity Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler crane to mount the 57 tonne top section of the Mae West statue

Russian construction contractor OAO Metrostroy put its Terex CTT 331-16 flat top tower crane to the test during a 150 m high cooling tower build in Saint Petersburg

Two Ormig pick-and-carry cranes have been demonstrating some of their key attributes in a confined indoor space

BP has put its new Liebherr LTC 1045-3.1 mobile crane to work amid a maze of pipelines at the Emsland oil refinery in Lingen, Germany. The 45 tonne capacity LTC 1045-3.1 was delivered to the Emsland BP Europe SE site in March

One of India's largest energy contractors is using a Manitowoc 18000 crawler crane in the expansion of a power plant in the country

Cargotec's board of directors has decided to repurchase the company's own shares. It folliows authorisation at the annual general meeting on 8 March 2011 and will start on 23 March at the earliest

Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd (MMHE) is using two Manitowoc 16000 crawler cranes to help build a semi-submersible vessel, as part of the Gumusut-Kakap deep-water oil field project

Mammoet Maritime recovered a 105 metre ship from the River Rhine in Germany after it sank and blocked downstream shipping for weeks

Aker Solutions is using five Potain tower cranes to construct part of an oil platform destined for Russia's Arkutun-Dagi field, situated off the coast of Sakhalin Island. The construction giant is building the largest concrete gravity-based substructure made in Russia, for customer Exxon Neftegas Ltd

German rental company Schuch has used the first 300 tonne capacity Grove GMK6300L all terrain crane in the field. The crane erected 2.5 MW Enercon E82 wind turbine tower sections in Mensinghausen

The Etermar and CPTP company used three of its Manitowoc crawler cranes during the Port of Leixões expansion in Portugal

AST machinery erected three Liebherr luffing jib tower cranes in a retricted working space to help build a residential block in Singapore

Linden Comansa group has sold its first towers cranes to India for work on power-related projects

Readers have been voting on the 2010 lifting job of the year. Now IC can reveal the winners and the two runners up

Portugal-based Montalgrua reached a milestone when it installed the 1,000th Enercon wind turbine in Portugal