Crane business

The Crane & Rigging Hot Line & CIC Crane Operator Skills Competition continues its cross-country trek to round up the best crane operators in the West and Southeast. From October until March 2014.

Altec has launched a new 45 ton boom truck/truck crane, the AC45-127S with 38.5 metre five section boom and 16.6 metre telescopic jib.

German crane rental company Scholpp has issued a statement regarding the overturn of one of its cranes while lifting 16 people in a gondola on June 22nd.

Lunchtime diners had an amazing escape when a huge crane smashed through the roof of a McDonald’s restaurant Friday.

A 600 t capacity Terex® CC 2800-1 crawler crane owned by Universal Cranes Pty – one of the largest privately owned crane hire companies in Australia – installed one of three communication antennae, part of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex. (CDSCC).

A tower crane has crashed on a traffic lane at the crossing of Altysarin and Marechek streets in Almaty, Lenta.kz reports.

A Rough Terrain crane working on Interstate highway I17 near Bumble Bee, to the north of Phoenix, Arizona, overturned yesterday.

Three cranes dismantled whilst foundations checked and strengthened

Leading heavy transport and lifting professional Marco van Daal will host a one day, expert interactive seminar on 31 October in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

A three axle truck crane dropped into a large sinkhole that opened up on a road in Dongguan, Guangdong, Southern China earlier this week.