Violent storm brings down crawler in South Louisiana
We had a tipped off that a fully rigged crawler crane has collapsed due to a reported violent storm at an LNG Plant on Tuesday (15th June) in south Louisiana, … Read more
Coamtra-Symco Adds Trio Liebherr Mobile Cranes
Coamtra-Symco, a family-run company based in Argentina, has taken delivery of three new Liebherr mobile cranes. Its two new 5-axle cranes, an 230-tonne LTM 1230-5.1 all terrain and an 250-tonne … Read more
Modest Growth In North America’s Crane Market
As KHL releases the latest American Cranes & Transport’s 2021 (ACT 100), we see that North America’s top crane companies have small growth despite challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic. The … Read more
Al Faris takes fourth liebherr crawler in a year
The 500-tonne Liebherr LR 1500 is the latest addition to the LR 1400, LR 1600/2 and LR 1800-1.0 cranes that has been delivered earlier. Main criteria behind the decision – … Read more
Tandem Lifting Gone Wrong in Michigan
Two telehandlers overturned in Traverse City, Michigan, on Monday, while carrying out a tandem lift. The SkyTrak telehandlers were apparently lifting a barge between them using canvas strap type slings … Read more
Belgium Port Receives First Liebherr LHM 800
Belgian terminal joint venture Neemnatie has taken delivery of the first Liebherr LHM 800 mobile harbour crane to arrive the Benelux area. The new crane will be employed at its … Read more
The distressing reality of South Korea’s surging Crane Accidents
Tower crane accidents are the most common accidents at construction sites in South Korea which contribute to a whopping 47 cases in the last three years. In 2021 alone, three … Read more
Bennetts Cranes support a crane conservation project
The Cranes For Cranes program initiative will see UK-based tower crane rental company Bennetts Cranes sponsoring a habitat restoration project at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge centre in Gloucestershire … Read more
Roughter collapsed forward, killing one in South Korea
A 25-tonne roughter working at a factory building in Yongdu-ri, Gongdo-eup, Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea has tipped forward on 24th May at 2.30pm in the afternoon. killing one worker in … Read more
Fatal Self-erecting Crane Overturned Accident in Germany
A fatal crane accident happened on the 12th June (Saturday) in Göttingen, Germany when a self-erecting collapsed, killing one construction worker and leaving another in serious injury. The self-erecting crane … Read more
Manitowoc delivers Indonesia’s first Grove GRT8100 to Surabaya Express
Surabaya Express, one of the largest crane rental and transportation companies in Indonesia, has added a Grove GRT8100 rough-terrain crane to its fleet to help drive its business expansion into new industry … Read more
Enercon installs wind turbines with self-climbing crane LCC140
With a joint effort between Lagerwey and Enercon, they have developed two self-climbing LCC140 cranes, each of which can be used to install turbine models of its latest EP 3 … Read more
Sarens LTM11000D overturned in Middlesbrough Port
Sarens 1,000-tonne Liebherr LTM11000D overturned on 9th June at the Port of Middlesbrough in UK, damaging another of Sarens all-terrain crane and port’s Gottwald mobile harbour cranes. The main boom … Read more
XGC88000 replicates hydrogenation reactors heavy lift
XCMG 4,000-tonne XGC88000 crawler has been deployed to Shenghong Refining and Chemical Integration Project in Jiangsu, China. Two hydrogenation reactors, each measuring 4.8 metres in diameter, 69 metres and weighing … Read more
Potain introduces Igo T 99 self-erecting tower crane
Potain unveiled the new Igo T 99 self-erecting tower crane this afternoon, with a 6-tonne maximum capacity at up to 15 metres radius. The new crane will fits into the … Read more
How Does Tadano Asymmetric Outrigger (Smart Chart) Works?
As early as 1991, Tadano ahead of other manufacturers introduced a control system that allows safe crane operations in asymmetric outrigger extension setup by the way of outrigger extension width … Read more
Domestic crane rental to benefit Singapore’s exception framework
Singapore’s agency Enterprise Singapore released a new framework called Exception Handling Framework (EHF) to allow local crane companies and crane owners to continue use of cranes of age 15 years … Read more
SinHeng takes Singapore first Grove GMK5250XL-1
Singapore based sales and rental company Sin Heng Heavy Machinery has taken delivery of the first 250 tonne Grove GMK5250XL-1 All Terrain crane in the country. The five axle GMK5250XL-1 … Read more
Liebherr Scores First And Last For Scottish’s Forsyth
UK crane rental company Forsyth of Denny has taken delivery of the last new 500 tonne Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 in the UK as well as the first 120 tonne LTM … Read more
Link-Belt debuts truck crane with new boom system
Link-Belt Cranes has rolled out a new 65 US ton (55 metric ton) truck crane, the 65|HT. New features include a four-section 36.5 to 115 foot (11.2 – 35 meter) … Read more
Link-Belt rolls out new telecrawler TCC-550
Predecessors to the Link-Belt TCC-550 – the TCC-500 and the TCC-450, were two of the first telescopic crawler models to be introduced by Link-Belt in 2006. A new 55 US ton (45 … Read more
Liebherr Part Shares For France Tower Crane Business
Liebherr is selling part of its French tower crane rental business to Hexagone Services. The deal will include all of the tower crane rental operation in the Ile-de-France (Greater Paris)/ … Read more
Zoomlion New ZCC13000 Sold To Domestic Customer
During the Changsha International Construction Equipment Exhibition (CICEE) that was held on 19th May 2021, Zoomlion has sold their ultra-large ZCC13000 crawler to a domestic customer – Shandong Fenglian. With … Read more
Liebherr HLC150000 Components Arrive in China for OHT’s Alfa Lift
Another important milestone in the construction of Alfa Lift was passed recently when two of the three major components for the Liebherr HLC150000 heavy lift crane arrived at the CMHI … Read more
Mammoet launched floating drydocks in Dammam
Built at Zamil Shipyard in the port of Dammam, two floating drydocks, intended for maintenance and repair works of naval crafts in Saudi Arabia, are being commissioned by Constructions Mécaniques … Read more
Zoomlion strengthens European presence with advanced facility in Italy
In the mid of last month, Chinese group Zoomlion Heavy Industry has increased its European presence with a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Solferino, northern Italy. The new plant will … Read more
Liebherr STS crane for Port of Alicante
At the Port of Alicante, Spain, port operator Terminales Maritimas Del Sureste (TMS) has taken delivery of a Liebherr STS crane with an outreach of 46.9 metres, a span of … Read more
New wind turbine transport system from Huisman
Schiedam, Netherlands-based heavy construction equipment designer and manufacturer Huisman has launched a wind turbine component feeder vessel with a Motion Compensated Platform. It is designed to quickly and safely transfer … Read more
Paolo Balugani leaves Palfinger
We can now confirm that Paolo Balugani, chief executive and one time owner of Palfinger Platforms Italy, is leaving the company. In a telephone conversation he said: “I have decided … Read more
Liebherr LR1300 aids Virginia hospital’s parking garage
Structural Unlimited was tasked with constructing the parking garage structure for the new CHKD Mental Healthcare facility. The first floor of the parking garage is 19 feet 10.5 inches high … Read more