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A Manhattan judge on Wednesday rebuffed the operating engineers’ effort to block the city from implementing controversial new crane licensing requirements.

Liebherr-Werk Nenzing has won Austria’s State prize for Environmental & Energy Technology, for its Pactronic hydraulic hybrid drive for cranes.

We have received some advance pictures of a new Liebherr 750 tonne All Terrain crane which will be unveiled next week – the LTM1750-9.1. We have very few details on the new crane, but Liebherr has confirmed that it will be launched next week, along with another new model at the company’s upcoming open days in Ehingen, Germany.

New Zealand’s McLeod Cranes has won a Department of Labour sponsored award for the best safety initiative by a small business.

A mobile self-erecting tower crane overturned in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands on Friday after its outriggers sank in soft sand.

A man died on Wednesday while working on one of the Metro construction sites in Bangalore India, after a crane boom came down on him.

Perched above New York City’s skyline, two tower cranes are piecing together the new One World Trade Center, which just became the city’s tallest skyscraper. How do those cranes get up there?

A quick thinking crane operator may have helped save a woman’s life yesterday in York, South Carolina.

A New York judge has put an end to an attempt by tower crane erector William Rapetti to get his licenses back.

An operator escaped injury yesterday after his crane slid off of the road and rolled on to its side near Manning, Oregon.