Crane business

Liebherr will extend its range of ship cranes up to 1,000 tonnes capacity. The announcement came during the Shipbuilding, Machinery and Marine Technology International (SMM) exhibition in Hamburg, Germany.

Liebherr said UK firm Weldex successfully used its new PowerBoom parallel boom attachment on a LR 11350-P1800 crawler to install heavy turbine machine housing in a single lift.

A number of people had a lucky escape this morning when a small spider crane fell off of a trailer in Tunbridge Wells, UK.

Crane service provider Welti-Furrer Pneukran & Spezialtransporte AG has erected a 2.3MW Enercon E-70 wind turbine at an altitude of 2465 M, (Approx. 8,000 ft) close to the Swiss-Italian border…

Melbourne based Boom Logistics has been fined $100,000 following a fatal crane incident in 2009 in the town of Telarah, to the northwest of Newcastle, New South Wales.

Training techniques in the USA are internationally recognised, with crane operators around the world seeking to certify themselves to US standards.

Terex will unveil the long rumoured and long awaited successor to its incredibly successful 600 tonne CC2800-1 crawler crane on October 8th and 9th.

A man was injured yesterday in a crane accident in Aberdeen, Scotland. The incident at the Beach Leisure Centre, reportedly involved a falling load landing on his legs, although details…

Phoenix Crane Rental, Mableton, Georgia, located just outside of Atlanta, recently painted its Terex T 340-1 truck crane pink as part of their generous sponsorship of the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).

A crawler crane working on a bridge in Monroe, Louisiana, overturned yesterday as the ground gave way beneath its tracks.