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Final voyage for Pluto-bound Jumbo vessel
Jumbo Shipping's heavy lift vessel Daniella has completed its eleventh and final voyage for the Pluto LNG project in Dampier, Australia
Penny Hydraulics loader crane in retail centre
A Nissan Cabstar truck with a Penny Hydraulics V20 loader crane is used by Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield, UK, to handle plant, machinery and building materials for maintenance work at the retail site
First wind turbine transition piece installed by DP2 vessel
Jumbo Offshore's engineers and the crew of DP2 vessel Jumbo Javelin have successfully installed their first wind turbine transition piece (TP), off the UK's south-east coast
Pekkaniska raises Soviet sculpture
Soviet-era sculpture 'Worker and Collective Farm Woman' (1937) has been returned to its historical place at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre in Moscow after five years of restoration
Manitowocs tackle gantries in Brazil
Two Manitowoc Model 18000 crawler cranes were used to help erect a pair of 1,500 tonne capacity gantry cranes at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard in Ipojuca, Pernambuco State, Brazil
Gulf gas boost
A 300 tonne crawler crane from Liebherr was used to upgrade the Gulf of Mexico's most productive gas processing platform
Kobelco crawlers in London station upgrade
BPH Equipment, a division of Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering in the UK, has taken delivery of five new Kobelco crawler cranes for work at the Blackfriars Underground Station and bridge redevelopment project in London
Three towers to build 1.3 km suspension bridge
E D Knutsen Maskin AS has supplied three Liebherr 280 EC-H 16 Litronic tower cranes to build the Hardanger Bridge across Norway's second largest fjord
Chimney challenge for Crane Rental Corp
Crane Rental Corporation in the USA handled another unique lift earlier this year when it was hired to safely remove a fallen chimney stack at a paper mill in Georgia
Sarens Polska refinery record
In August Sarens Polska performed its biggest transport and single crane lift project to date. The destination was the Lotos Refinery in Gdańsk
Lift power in Spain
Work has started on the construction of two thermosolar power plants plants in Cadiz, Spain
Largest Potain in Indonesia
The largest Potain tower crane ever erected in Indonesia, an MD 1100, has been put to work at a shipyard in Medan, North Sumatra
Yongmao in Europe
Yongmao has been busy in three European cities
Climbing above 800 feet
A tower crane company in Canada has erected three large luffing jib towers, two of which will be climbed to a final height of more than 800 feet (244 m) using tie-ins more than 60 feet (18 m) long
Jumbo offshore lifting record
Jumbo Shipping has claimed a tandem heavy lift record during the testing of its new crane transport vessel, Jumbo Jubilee
Wolff makes the media
Four Wolff tower cranes are working on the Médiacité shopping, recreation and media centre, in Liège, Belgium
Liebherr stadium lifts
Named after Romania's first track and field athlete to compete in six Olympic Games, the 55,200 seat Lia Manoliu stadium, in Bucharest, is scheduled to host the UEFA European football league final in 2012
ALE double bridge tower lift
ALE Heavylift performed the uprighting of two steel towers on a new bridge over the Cuarto River in Córdoba, Argentina. The towers are 40 m tall and weigh 190 tonnes
Comansa Jie towers in Wenzhou
Two Comansa Jie flat top tower cranes are working in the city of Wenzhou, in the east of China
ABG blast furnace challenge
A project at a steel plant in India has benefited from the services of an old but unused tower crane resurrected to replace a blast furnace
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