Ernie Pierini

While New York is facing a massive clean-up in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, one problem looms above all others: the tower crane with a broken boom atop the 306-metre tall One57 building beside Central Park.

The Liebherr heavy lift offshore crane series consists of machine types with lifting capacities from 300t to 3,000t. The machine types are BOS 7500, BOS 14000, BOS 35000, BOS 45000, MTC 78000, CAL 45000 and CAL 64000.

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An All Terrain crane overturned onto a rare car last week in Gits, Belgium – to the south of Brugge. Thankfully no one was injured or hurt in the incident.

We have been asked to warn tower crane owners on the East coast of the United States, of the need to ensure that their cranes are at the very least left to ‘weathervane’ in to follow the wind rather than fight it.

Potain supplied two cranes, including a giant MD 1100, to work on the recently-completed, record breaking, Russky Island Bridge in Vladivostok.

There were mixed emotions at SAIE 2012 exhibition in Bologna as tower cranes were nowhere to be seen, but loader cranes and mobile cranes were out in force.

The first 1,500 tonne capacity Liebherr CAL 64000-1500 Litronic heavy lift offshore crane is ready for operation. Built in Rostock, Germany, by Austria-based Liebherr-Werk Nenzing, the crane has been installed on the Innovation, a vessel owned HGO InfraSea Solutions.

One of the biggest building projects in Europe is currently employing nine Liebherr tower cranes in a crowded, highly dense area. On the new Karolinska Solna University Hospital, four more tower cranes will be delivered over the next 12 months.