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The crawler crane that slipped off a barge in South Whidbey Harbour, in Washington state last week, has been recovered.
Albert Marine Construction is assisting in the repbuilding effort post Hurricane Sandy and has used an 85 USt (80 t) Manitowoc 8500-1 crawler crane for its part.
A tower crane collapsed in the early hours of yesterday morning on a construction site in Xi’an the capital of north west China’s Shaanxi Province killing four people and injuring four others.
Manitowoc signed a five year, strategic agreement with Orlaco, to provide and develop aftermarket camera systems for Manitowoc cranes, including Potain tower cranes, Grove mobile cranes, National Crane boom trucks and Manitowoc crawler cranes.
Wind and weather played a role in last week’s Regional Qualifying Rodeo, hosted by Empire Crane in Syracuse, N.Y., as area crane operators competed for a spot in the MCM & CIC Crane Operator Rodeo National Championship
Hugon chose a Liebherr LTC 1045-3.1 compact crane for a job deep inside the city walls of the medieval town of Carcassonne in France.
Torrential rains caused a 50 ton crawler crane to slide into the Tuckaseigee River in Cullowhee, North Carolina (south west of Ashville) last week.
The British Broadcasting Corporation – the BBC has confirmed that it is working on a ‘fly on the wall’ documentary about crane rental.
Mini crane specialists GGR Group were hired by Constantine Limited to take on an extraordinary job at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh this week, as a UNIC spider crane was used to lift their latest exhibit, a sperm whale’s skull, into pride of place.