SANY hands 20 fifty-tonne truck cranes to Saudi rental firm

Twenty machines in one batch

The handover took place on 8 April at Al Areedh’s principal operating base in Jubail, on Saudi Arabia’s Gulf coast. All 20 cranes are 50-tonne truck-mounted machines, and SANY says they are to be moved straight out to job sites rather than held in the yard.

Fifty-tonners occupy the busiest part of any general rental fleet. They handle taxi work, plant erection, steelwork and maintenance lifts, where the value of the machine lies in how quickly it can travel, set up and get the hook in the air. Taking 20 identical units in a single batch also simplifies operator familiarisation, spares holding and job planning for the fleet owner.

900-tonne all-terrains already in service

The batch delivery follows two 900-tonne all-terrain cranes that SANY supplied to Al Areedh earlier. Both have been commissioned and are working on major projects in the kingdom. According to SANY, the two machines have held up well under harsh site conditions and their lifting capacity, output and stability have been well received by the project teams using them.

The pairing is a familiar structure for a growing lifting contractor: a small number of heavy all-terrains to win the headline work, supported by a deep bench of mid-range taxi cranes that keep utilisation steady between the big jobs.

Service network behind the sale

SANY frames the order as a step up in Al Areedh’s heavy lifting and rental capability rather than a one-off equipment purchase, and points to its localised service network in the region as the element that keeps the machines earning. For any rental business running a mixed fleet across scattered industrial sites, parts availability and response time matter as much as the load chart.

Saudi Arabia remains one of the most active crane markets in the Middle East, with industrial, petrochemical and infrastructure work tied to the Vision 2030 programme keeping demand for rental capacity high. Chinese manufacturers have used that demand to build share against the established European brands, generally competing on delivery times, price and the willingness to put service engineers on the ground.

Source: Sany — Photos: Sany