A West Midlands steel company has been ordered to pay more than GBP 146,000 (USD 231,125) in fines and costs after one of its employees was crushed to death by a 15t overhead crane, Health and Safety [...]
LTM is a UK-based lifting equipment and lifting solutions provider. It was acquired in 2018 by its electric chain hoist supplier, Swiss firm GIS AG. Recently, it has seen cleanroom equipment customers[...]
The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has restored its container handling capacity at various stations in both Tanzania and Zambia, according to local news reports. The company signed an agre[...]
Two double girder overhead cranes are to be used in Jazan Economic City, Saudi Arabia, where Outotec is building a new ilmenite smelter for Christal Global, which is the world’s second largest produ[...]
Maintenance is an essential for safe operation of hoists. Julian Champkin looks at requirements and methods. Hoists need maintenance. Quite apart from the disruption to productivity that occurs if a h[...]
A new order for container handling equipment to state-owned terminal operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III has been signed. Konecranes has won the record order comprising 10 ship to shore cranes, 20 aut[...]
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has announced that it has secured a further order from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry in China for its variable frequency drive (VFD) electric cranes. The 32 electric cranes[...]
The Central-Eastern European markets remain solid despite industrial slowdown. Jaroslaw Adamowski reports from Warsaw. The economies of the EU’s eastern member states are experiencing rapid growth, [...]
The Regional Port of Buenaventura SA, which constitute the largest cranes on the South American Pacific coast, has received two new Super Post Panamax gantry cranes, local news reports revealed recent[...]
Finnish company Konecranes has received a major order for a Goliath gantry crane from Brazilian shipyard Estaleiro Enseada do Paraguaçu (EEP). The high-tech Goliath crane, which will be one of the la[...]
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