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Jumbo Shipping has taken ownership of its new 1,800 tonne lifting capacity crane vessel, the Jubilee. The J1800-class vessel was built at the Damen Shipyards in Galati, Romania

Hiab will supply 39 XS 166 HiDuo loader cranes to the Finnish Defence Forces through supplier Sisu Defence

Tadano has developed a four-legged, dual-lifting robotic crane that can walk while carrying a load. The machine, currently named Robotops, took two years to design and another 12 months to develop

Ritchie Bros. holds an unreserved public auction in Boston, US, on 10 June. It will include 16 large capacity cranes

Cargotec has received a €25 million (US$34.7 million) order to supply 96 MacGregor cargo-handling cranes destined for 24 bulk carriers at ABG Shipyard Ltd. in India

Offshore lifting specialist EnerMech has secured a £6 million (US$9.5 million) contract with Apache North Sea Ltd to provide crane and maintenance services

Chinese crane manufacturer Zoomlion has started production at its new CNY300 million crawler crane factory in Changsha, Hunan Province

Six Potain tower cranes are working on the construction of a corporate and residential district in Oslo, Norway. The project is part of a regeneration of the city's historic waterfront area that will eventually cover 450,000 square metres

Four Linden Comansa tower cranes are working on the US$1 billion Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower complex in Vietnam

US crane manufacturer Shuttlelift has unveiled an unusual new folding crane concept for the wind power industry

Ainscough Crane Hire in the UK provided a fully managed crane and transport service for Takuma on an Energy from Waste construction project near Heathrow Airport west of London

UK rental company Jones Crawler Cranes, based in Dorset, purchased the first Link-Belt 75 US ton (70 tonne) TCC-750 telescopic crawler crane this month (May)

The Schmidbauer Group in Germany has extended its lifting capabilities with a 1,250 tonne capacity Terex Demag CC 6800 crawler crane. "It will allow us to significantly increase our capabilities in the upper lifting capacity segment [and] is absolutely ideal for use in industrial facilities and in work with large wind turbines."

Despite the economic concerns and some notable absentees, April's Intermat 2009 exhibition in Paris turned out to be a positive and worthwhile experience for most of its exhibitors. IC rounds up news from the show

Mantis presented its new 36.10 self-erecting tower crane at April's Intermat exhibition in Paris

The UK's largest crane rental company, Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd, is entering the heavy lift crawler crane sector in a big way

Liugong, one of China's largest earthmoving equipment manufacturers has branched out into the crane sector with the construction of a new factory in Bengbu, Anhui Province. The company has set a target of 3,000 crawler and mobile crane sales in 2011, writes Chris Sleight

The new Manitowoc Grove GSK55 wheeled mobile crane was first shown to the public at the Intermat construction equipment exhibition in Paris, France on 20 April. It is the upper works from a 55 tonne capacity Grove GMK3055 all terrain crane mounted on a road trailer hauled by a standard commercial tractor unit

Only three weeks after the official launch of the Wolff 1250B, the title of Europe's strongest luffing jib tower crane passes to Wilbert