Ernie Pierini

Three rail-mounted cranes manufactured by German manufacturer Kirow have been shipped from the Wallmann Terminal in Hamburg to a Chinese customer by project forwarder Kühne + Nagel onboard multipurpose vessel Rickmers Jakarta. The shipment is bound for Xingang, China, where it is scheduled to arrive in late November

  We have been sent a time lapse video of a 16 storey hotel and spa being built in just over 90 hours thanks to lots of labour long working…

Sany will show four new crawler cranes, the SCC500E, SCC3000WE, SCC3000 and the SCC16000 at the 2010 Bauma China exhibition. Most noticeable will be the SCC16000, a 1600 tonne capacity heavy lift crawler. Features of the 25000 tonne-metre giant include a modular design and super lift system.

Liebherr has delivered its 50th mobile harbour crane in Russia since it started in 1996. Over the last 15 years Liebherr has delivered at least one example of every different type of the mobile harbour crane it produces. Covering every type of freight, from container handling to bulk operations, from heavy lifts to general cargo.

The superstructure of a Liebherr LTR 11200 crawler crane has been mounted on an offshore jack-up barge for wind farm work. Danish based ship owner DBB Jack-Up Services A/S worked with Liebherr on the mounting of the 1,200 tonne capacity LTR 11200 superstructure to a pedestal on its self-propelled jack-up barge the Wind.

The lack of any tower crane manufacturers at what was meant to be SAIE’s bi-annual tower crane year was a sign of the difficult economic conditions that still exist in Italy. Major manufacturers like Liebherr and Terex chose not to attend October’s annual exhibition held in Bologna, Italy either, although the latter was represented by a distributor

When I have more money than I need (which these days seems farther away than it did a few years ago), I want to travel around the world and speak to high school freshmen and sophomores. Ninth and tenth graders. I want to talk to them about the hidden power of mathematics. In math of all sorts, you’re given problems to solve.

PHOENIX – The tallest Christmas tree in the nation arrived this morning at Outlets at Anthem in Phoenix. Measuring a little over 110 feet and weighing 12 tons undecorated, this white fir was delivered 750 miles from the Shasta Trinity Forest in Northern California this morning, says a representative for Outlets at Anthem.

Italian crane maker Locatelli has delivered 20 Rough Terrain cranes for work on the widening of the Panama Canal. The cranes, 12 units of the company’s 30 tonne GRIL 8300T plus eight 60 tonne GRIL 8600T, have been sold to the “Grupo Unido por el Canal” consortium – an international joint venture between Impregilo of Italy, Sacyr Vallehermoso of Spain, Somague of Portugal, Jan de Nul of Belgium and Panama’s Constructora Urbana.

J.R. Merritt, Stratford, Conn., has introduced the XL-VNSO Hall-effect joystick controller. The new controller was derived from the high duty-cycle XL-VNSO potentiometric joystick, and uses non-contacting Hall-effect technology