March 28, 2017 North Syracuse, New York – Empire Crane Company has cranes rented to Correia Construction Company Ltd. for lowering yachts into the water for the America’s Cup in Bermuda. Empire’s 2015 Terex HC110 lifted the yacht for Team Japan. Empire’s 2015 Terex RT780 lifted the yacht for Team France. Correia Construction decided to […]
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Mamut de Colombia building a new metro line in Panama City using several Liebherr mobile cranes
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Ehingen/ Donau (Germany) March 2017 – Colombian crane contractor Mamut de Colombia is currently working on the construction of metro line 2 in Panama City. This involves two Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile cranes and a Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1 crane hoisting a total of 1640 U-shaped concrete beams weighing up to 161 tonnes onto prefabricated pillars […]
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Over the last nine months, ALE has performed almost 400 transport operations and executed over 300 lifts for multiple offshore wind contracts in the UK. ALE has set up a dedicated facility and operations team who are working on several offshore wind projects throughout Europe. ALE has been contracted for the supply and deployment of […]
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The heavy lifting crane, London’s largest crane, is now ready to begin work on site at Earls Court. The Earls Court development, led by Capital & Counties Properties PLC will create 8,000 homes and 10,000 new jobs as well as a new High Street and a new five-acre park in London. Demolition of the former […]
Crane News, Jobsite reports, New cranes
Experience Innovation: port handling with balance principle: SENNEBOGEN 8160 EQ at Buss Erk
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A new balance material handler, the SENNEBOGEN 8160 EQ, unloads arriving ships in Iskenderun Turkey. The machine saves up to 75% on operating costs thanks to a sophisticated balance principle and electric drive. The Hamburg Buss Group, established as a stowage since 1920, is now a reliable partner in matters of port logistics and shipping […]
Companies, Jobsite reports
Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile crane operated by Ulferts & Wittrock assembles Liebherr portal slewing crane in Bremen
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) March 2017 – At the beginning of this year, crane and heavy haulage contractor Ulferts & Wittrock assembled a Liebherr LPS 280 portal slewing crane for handling scrap metal in Bremen. A Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile crane was used for the heaviest loads. The constricted conditions on site proved a major […]
Jobsite reports
Liebherr mobile cranes successfully complete final bridge dismantling job in the dark and fog
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Mar
Ehingen / Donau (Germany) March 2017 – Three massive prestressed concrete supports for a road bridge were dismantled under great time pressure near Osnabrück. The railway track under the bridge was shut to rail traffic for two nights. Crane contractors Sommer-Kranverleih from Bremen and Autokrane-Spallek from Ibbenbüren each brought an LTM 1300-6.2 to the site […]
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ALE has completed the whole turnkey solution to install the first-ever wind turbine in Saudi Arabia. Starting in January, ALE was contracted for the transportation, erection and installation of one 2.75-120 wind turbine at a wind farm in Huraymila, around 80km north of Riyadh. ALE received the wind turbine components from a vessel at the […]
Jobsite reports
Liebherr LTR 1220 telescopic crawler crane builds water basins for innovative energy storage system
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) February 2017 – For several months the Max Bögl Group has been working on a smart concept to generate and store natural electricity in the north-east of Baden-Württemberg. A modern pump accumulator power plant is being built near Schwäbisch Hall along with four wind turbines with a total height of up […]
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Our UK sales and service partner, AGD Equipment, delivered a SENNEBOGEN 655 dragline excavator in the middle of 2016 to the customer, Thomas Armstrong Aggregates Ltd. Fitted with a 27 m boom and two powerful 160 kN freefall winches, the duty cycle crane digs tons of gravel every day for the manufacture of construction materials. […]