On the construction site of Colombo Lotus TV Tower, Sri Lanka’s first one, XCMG’s cranes were busy with orderly operations of extending arm, hoisting and rotating in a smooth and brilliant way. As the first overseas TV tower project designed [...]
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a new contract for one 120-tonne active heave-compensated (AHC) MacGregor offshore crane and two 10-tonne offshore cranes from South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). The cranes will be installed on a new 123m [...]
With help from two Terex CC2800-1 crawler cranes, developer RPM Access (RPMA), LLC recently completed the Hawkeye Wind Farm project in rural Fayette County, Iowa. Hawkeye’s 15 wind turbines generate enough power to provide for the needs of more than [...]
Sarens Nass is a joint venture between Belgium’s Sarens Group and Bahrain’s Nass Group of Companies. The pair offers crane rental and heavy transport solutions throughout the Middle East. Sarens Nass operates a fleet of 300 mobile and crawler cranes [...]
Houston Port Authority orders four dockside electric container cranes for Barbours Cut Container Terminal Konecranes, the Finnish crane manufacture, will supply four dockside electric container cranes to Houston’s Barbours Cut Container Terminal as part of the facility’s redevelopment, the Port [...]
HPC Ukrania and Argentina’s Exolgan Container Terminal order three STS cranes and one STS crane respectively Liebherr Container Cranes has announced a number of repeat orders from its existing clients due for delivery this year, including from Beunos Aires, Argentina [...]
The GMK6400 has earned Manitowoc the Innovation Manufacturer award from the European Association of Abnormal Road Transport and Mobile Cranes (ESTA). Following the crane’s nomination in 2012, the ESTA named Manitowoc the winner at its awards dinner that took place [...]
Service Electric Company, (SEC), based in Chattanooga, Tenn., has enlisted a fleet of National Crane boom trucks to install 133 mi. of high-voltage transmission lines in the Texas panhandle. Chris Forsythe, western regional manager for SEC, said the versatility and [...]
Bigge has broken its sales record by moving 34 Terex rough terrain cranes in one week, hot on the heels of the BAUMA international construction exhibition in Munich, Germany. Bigge recently sent 20 new Terex RT780, RT555, and RT230 cranes [...]
Albuquerque-based Crane Service, Inc. has taken delivery of a new 250t capacity class Terex AC 250-1 all-terrain crane. Equipped with all available options, including offset hydraulic jib, it made its debut in Abilene, Texas, hoisting down a neon sign from [...]
