Gunnebo Johnson Corporation landed the prestigious Asian Hercules III project, together with Franklin Offshore in Singapore. Over the next twenty five months from then the crane ship will be designed, tested, manufactured and delivered. of the largest crane ships in the world – for the offshore business.

Italian manufacturer CTE has built a combined truck mounted aerial lift and loader crane for a fire department in Hong Kong.

Valla Calendasco, Italy, has introduced the 13.23-ton 120EVO compact battery powered pick and carry crane.

Oilfield services company 5J Trucking, used its two new Sany America crawler cranes to lift a 90,000 pound (41 tonne) oil derrick.

In response to a growing need for efficient and cost effective lifting solutions Shuttlelift launched a new series of double-beam mobile gantry cranes.

With a maximum load of up to 208 tons, the LMH 600 is the strongest quay crane in service in the Port of Hamburg. The key feature is that Liebherr’s Synchronising Crane Control System which permits synchronised operation of two Liebherr port mobile cranes in tandem, using only one crane driver, hence increasing the ultimate load of the cranes.

Kobelco Cranes has started production of its new S series crawler cranes aimed at markets outside of Japan, Europe and North America.

Liebherr has released details of a new crane that serves as both an offshore and mobile harbour crane. The new hybrid product has been developed in partnership with Liebherr Nenzing, Lukoil–Kaliningradmorneft and Liebherr-Russland and will be delivered by the end of 2012.

Spanish tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa has announced the world’s largest flat top tower crane range, topped by a 64 tonne model.

At the Liebherr factory site in Ehingen, Germany, a lattice boom crane is towering 150 m above the ground in a form that has never been seen before. At the lower part of the crane the lattice sections are assembled parallel to each other; at the top, the double boom has been joined together to form a single boom.