Category Archives: Crane News

Belgian company ordered its 15 th Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbor crane

Konecranes has won another order from Goeyvaerts-R bvba (Goeyvaerts), a rental crane expert. The order was placed in the third quarter of 2018 and the crane will be delivered to Antwerp in November 2018. It will be Goeyvaerts’ 15 th Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbor crane and the largest crane in their fleet. Goeyvaerts will add the diesel-electric crane to its […]

Schick takes delivery of the most powerful 5-axle crane on the market – lifting capacity extension with the Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane

Ehingen / Donau (Germany) October 2018 – Anton Schick GmbH took delivery of a Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1 mobile crane in July. “This means we now have the most powerful five-axle crane on the market in our fleet”, says Managing Director Anton Schick. The company based in Bad Kissingen in the heart of Germany will use […]

COMANSA cranes build a luxury residential complex in Nigeria

The keys of the 244 luxury apartments of the “Azuri Penisnula” complex will be amongst the first couple to be handed over of the entire Eko Atlantic project, a spectacular business and residential city under construction on an artificial peninsula in Lagos, the Financial Capital of Nigeria. The State of Lagos and the Chagoury Group […]

A Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Crane with new drive concept delivered to Bremer Weserport

Konecranes supplied a mobile harbor crane with a new drive concept to Weserport in Bremen in June 2018. Weserport uses the crane in Terminal 1 of Bremen’s Industriehafen for loading and unloading general cargo and handling project loads. The new Model 6 mobile harbor crane in the G HMK 6507 two-rope variant offers Weserport a maximum lifting capacity […]

Ale quickly mobilises the largest-ever capacity cranes in Iraq to optimise the Karbala refinfery project schedule.

ALE has utilised the largest-ever capacity cranes in Iraq while performing the heavy lifting works at the Karbala Refinery Project. The quick mobilisation of the cranes has also enabled ALE to optimise the overall project schedule. As part of a bigger scope involving several contracts for heavylifting, the global heavylifting contractor has been tasked to […]

New 21LC1050 from COMANSA

COMANSA, one of the world’s main references in tower cranes for construction, launches to the worldwide market a new model designed to work in projects in which it is necessary to lift heavy loads. The new 21LC1050 is offered with versions of maximum load of 25, 37.5 and 50 tonnes and can be erected with […]

Empire Crane Delivers 2018 Demag AC 130-5 to Bob Hegarty’s North Jersey Crane Services, LLC

Empire Crane Company’s Mike Andrews has delivered a new 2018 Demag AC 130-5 to Bob Hegarty’s North Jersey Crane Services LLC in Landing, NJ. Hegarty’s chose the Demag AC130-5 because the capacity and reach will allow them to expand their operating capacities, while updating their fleet. They have had a positive relationship with the Terex/Demag […]

First Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane in the Baltic states

Ehingen / Donau (Germany) August 2018 – Crane contractor JSC “Strele logistics” has added to its fleet with a new Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane. The long telescopic boom, outstanding load charts and the economy of the Liebherr single-engine concept on the eight-axle crane were the main points behind the investment in the new crane. Kestutis […]

Reid Davit Crane Lifts Personnel at Outdoor Activity Centre

A Reid Lifting davit crane makes it possible for disabled people to participate in watersports and other activities at Calvert Trust Kielder, a specialist site for outdoor experiences, in Kielder Water & Forest Park, Northumberland, UK. The 150kg capacity T-Davit was installed on a jetty for the trust in the spring and has performed successfully […]

Liebherr mobile cranes install a weight of 180 tonnes in a tandem hoist

Ehingen / Donau (Germany) August 2018 – Teamwork in our home town – in June two Liebherr mobile cranes replaced a 20 year old debarking drum at the Sappi paper factory in Ehingen. This is also the location of the Liebherr manufacturing plant for mobile and crawler cranes. An LTM 1350-6.1 from Rieger & Moser […]