Ernie Pierini

Terex Port Solutions has been presented the “Crane of the Year” award by leading magazine International Bulk Journal (IBJ) in Hamburg, Germany.

Harrison Hoist employees were dismantling the crane when it went over causing two erectors to fall around 50 metres to the ground – both died from their injuries.

We can now confirm the fatal crawler crane overturn in Ba Ria, Vung Tau, in southern Vietnam on Sunday.

Cranes and specialized transport equipment from across the United States is being dispatched to hurricane-ravaged New York City, Staten Island and throughout the state of New Jersey in the wake of clean-up from Hurricane Sandy.

Over 40 contractor delegates attended a special IPAF half day seminar today at London’s Heathrow airport Terminal 5, in order to discuss the specifying of anti-entrapment devices on boom lifts.

Manitowoc has launched a new feature, called the Boom Raise System (BRS), for the 400t 16000 Wind Attachment, designed to raise longer Wind Attachment boom lengths.

Prompted in part by the threat that regulatory scrutiny of mobile cranes could bleed over to overhead cranes, many steel mills and other high production industries are gearing up their lifting equipment operator training programs.

“What I did on my summer vacation.” Every one of you have given a speech, or written a paragraph or essay about what you did on your summer vacation while you were in grade school.

Wind forces acting on loads during lifting operations have led to serious accidents in the wind turbine industry.

A 70 year old crane operator was trapped under his crane in Borge to the northeast of Fredrikstad, after it overturned on Saturday.