Ehingen / Donau (Germany) September 2016 – As part of the Stuttgart 21 infrastructure project, a pedestrian bridge had to be removed to be replaced by a new railway bridge in Baden-Württemberg’s state capital. Crane contractor Wiesbauer assembled its Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom crane on the banks of the River Neckar to remove the […]
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) September 2016 – The first job awaiting the new Liebherr LR 1750/2 crawler crane operated by Fanger Kran AG was a demanding one in central Switzerland near Lucerne. The crane had to handle a gross load of around 270 tonnes to replace a 30-metre cylinder. In a very constricted space in the production […]
Jobsite reports
Unloading – Transporting – Placing: The flexibilitiy of the 120t Telescopic Crane is impressive
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The Gollwitzer Company has become an internationally renowned and reliable partner in the special excavation work branch. During the construction of a 90 m stormwater reservoir in the German town of Neumarkt, the company successfully employed a 120 t telescopic crane, the SENNEBOGEN 6113. The pre-cast concrete components that the crane operators Roland Schiener and […]
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September 21, 2016- Two Raimondi MRT111 cranes have been erected at the latest residential construction site by Akvilon-Invest called ‘4U’ in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Konsul LLC., the official dealer of Raimondi Cranes in the Russian Federation, trading commercially as Import Cranes, explains that the ‘4You’ residential complex will include four buildings each at an 18-storey […]
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The runner-up of the 2016 UEFA Champions League Final, Club Atlético de Madrid of Spain, has planned to quit playing at the “Vicente Calderón” stadium at the end of the 2016-2017 football season (soccer). Leaving this mythical venue, its home field since 1966, would be very difficult to understand for the fans if it wasn’t […]
Crane Business, Jobsite reports
ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS WILL HANDLE FRUIT IMPORTS WITH MODEL 2 MOBILE HARBOUR CRANES FROM TEREX
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Düsseldorf, Germany, 13 September 2016 – Latest success for diesel-electric Terex® Gottwald Model 2 harbour cranes: Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has received an order from the British port operator Associated British Ports (ABP) for two G HMK 2204 mobile harbour cranes in the 2-rope variant. In October 2016, ABP will commence operation with the new cargo handling cranes, which will […]
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Nenzing (Austria) September 2016 – During the first half of 2016 a total of three Liebherr duty cycle crawler cranes were involved in infrastructural work in the course of the expansion of Barcelona-El Prat Airport. The machines included two HS 8100 HD, models belonging to the newest generation from Liebherr. With nearly 40 million passengers […]
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August 15, 2016 – A total of six Raimondi tower cranes are to be erected on one of Dublin’s most ambitious jobsites to date. Capital Dock by Kennedy Wilson, one of the largest commercial projects awarded in Ireland in recent history, is situated in Dublin’s Docklands business district. Major league Irish contractor John Sisk & […]
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Whoever has had the opportunity to drive a car in the Russian capital of Moscow during rush hour knows it: Numerous large infrastructure projects are underway around this metropolis. For the Russian company Mostotrest, which specializes in bridge and road construction, this means a lot of work – also involving a SENNEBOGEN 3300 crawler crane. […]
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ZWEIBRUECKEN, Germany, August 11, 2016 – The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is in the midst of a two-year, $77 million project to address deteriorated bridge conditions and increased congestion along Interstate 96 at the U.S. Highway 23 interchange in Livingston County. More than 96,000 vehicles per day travel this stretch of I-96, and the […]