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 […]
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Crane News, Jobsite reports, New cranes
Experience Innovation: port handling with balance principle: SENNEBOGEN 8160 EQ at Buss Erk
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Mar
Mar
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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Mar
Mar
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 […]
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Mar
Mar
Successful participation of the tower crane manufacturer at the ConExpo trade show, receiving a large number of visitors and potential new customers interested in knowing the luffing-jib product line. The most important fairs in each sector tend to be a thermometer of the market situation. The ConExpo trade show in Las Vegas was no exception, […]
Jobsite reports
Liebherr mobile cranes successfully complete final bridge dismantling job in the dark and fog
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Mar
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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Mar
Mar
GIS 2017 WILL BE THE BIGGEST EUROPEAN EVENT OF THE YEAR DEDICATED TO THE LIFTING, INDUSTRIAL & PORT HANDLING AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES. A few months after the start of promotional and commercial activities, the number of confirmed exhibitors at the 6th edition of GIS-Giornate Italiane del Sollevamento e dei Trasporti Eccezionali has already significantly […]
Companies, Crane Business, New cranes
Konecranes Gottwald QuaymateTM M50 Mobile Harbor Crane becoming popular with terminal operators in Korea
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Mar
Mar
The Konecranes Gottwald QuaymateTM M50 Mobile Harbor Crane is becoming a favorite of Korean terminal operators. Two of these diesel-electric machines were shipped to Korea in 2016, one to Ulsan and one to Incheon, and now a new Korean customer in Incheon has ordered a Quaymate M50 mobile harbor crane. From April 2017, the crane […]
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Mar
Mar
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 […]
Crane Business, General, New cranes
Sönke Jordt expands fleet with a Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane
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Ehingen / Donau (Germany) February 2017 – Sönke Jordt GmbH & Co. KG based in Ratekau in Schleswig-Holstein took delivery of a new Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane at the manufacturing plant in Ehingen at the beginning of February. The 5-axle 250-tonne mobile crane represents an upwards expansion in the company’s fleet. Liebherr’s VarioBase® variable […]
Jobsite reports
Liebherr LTR 1220 telescopic crawler crane builds water basins for innovative energy storage system
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Feb
Feb
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 […]