crane industry news

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A runaway crane smashed into a bus yesterday in Taiwan killing four people – three women and a man – and injuring a further eight. There were a total of 16 passengers on the bus. The accident involving a dated four axle truck crane, occurred in Guishan, Taoyuan County

An All Terrain crane owned and operated by the Budapest Fire department turned over on Wednesday while lifting artwork into Buda castle. The crane a four axle Tadano Faun ATF 60-4, working over the rear, had just lifted a crate of Munkácsy paintings in to the castle by way of its large balcony.

Three rail-mounted cranes manufactured by German manufacturer Kirow have been shipped from the Wallmann Terminal in Hamburg to a Chinese customer by project forwarder Kühne + Nagel onboard multipurpose vessel Rickmers Jakarta. The shipment is bound for Xingang, China, where it is scheduled to arrive in late November

Sany will show four new crawler cranes, the SCC500E, SCC3000WE, SCC3000 and the SCC16000 at the 2010 Bauma China exhibition. Most noticeable will be the SCC16000, a 1600 tonne capacity heavy lift crawler. Features of the 25000 tonne-metre giant include a modular design and super lift system.

Liebherr has delivered its 50th mobile harbour crane in Russia since it started in 1996. Over the last 15 years Liebherr has delivered at least one example of every different type of the mobile harbour crane it produces. Covering every type of freight, from container handling to bulk operations, from heavy lifts to general cargo.

The superstructure of a Liebherr LTR 11200 crawler crane has been mounted on an offshore jack-up barge for wind farm work. Danish based ship owner DBB Jack-Up Services A/S worked with Liebherr on the mounting of the 1,200 tonne capacity LTR 11200 superstructure to a pedestal on its self-propelled jack-up barge the Wind.

The lack of any tower crane manufacturers at what was meant to be SAIE’s bi-annual tower crane year was a sign of the difficult economic conditions that still exist in Italy. Major manufacturers like Liebherr and Terex chose not to attend October’s annual exhibition held in Bologna, Italy either, although the latter was represented by a distributor

PHOENIX – The tallest Christmas tree in the nation arrived this morning at Outlets at Anthem in Phoenix. Measuring a little over 110 feet and weighing 12 tons undecorated, this white fir was delivered 750 miles from the Shasta Trinity Forest in Northern California this morning, says a representative for Outlets at Anthem.

Italian crane maker Locatelli has delivered 20 Rough Terrain cranes for work on the widening of the Panama Canal. The cranes, 12 units of the company’s 30 tonne GRIL 8300T plus eight 60 tonne GRIL 8600T, have been sold to the “Grupo Unido por el Canal” consortium – an international joint venture between Impregilo of Italy, Sacyr Vallehermoso of Spain, Somague of Portugal, Jan de Nul of Belgium and Panama’s Constructora Urbana.