The crane market in Oceania has been going through hard times. But Julian Champkin finds an air of anticipation and a refusal to give in. It is almost two years since anyone last produced a car in Aus[...]
Liebherr has expanded its share of the rubber-tyred gantry crane (RTG) market, with deliveries to Polish, Egyptian, Irish and Russian ports, while shipping 15 mobile harbour cranes to Latin America th[...]
Three 16-wheel rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes, purchased in January by port operator Luka Koper for the Slovenian Port of Koper, have been delivered. The three Konecranes RTG cranes are the first 16[...]
Implementing technology can increase the capacity and efficiency of a port – for example, through optimising loading or unloading cargo operations and reducing the number of workers needed to manage[...]
Northport (Malaysia), the operators of Malaysia’s main maritime gateway Port Klang, are planning to boost the port’s current capacity by a further 600,000 TEUs, local news has reported. Port Klang[...]
Associated British Ports has awarded a GBP 26M contract for four megamax ship-to-shore container cranes to Liebherr Container Cranes. The cranes will be operational in 2014 and will be able to work th[...]
A system for lifting boats past a hydropower dam on the Upper Rhine has been redesigned by Innokran, using Stahl CraneSystems hoists. Innokran has installed two crane systems fitted with hoisting tech[...]
JDR Cable Systems has installed a 72t overhead crane for reel loading and unloading in a new marine cable factory, it was announced late last week. Street Crane Company supplied the crane that will be[...]
Manufacturer of wireless crane and machine controls, HBC-Radiomatic, has announced that its services are now available to customers in Vietnam. The company has partnered with Saigon Engineering Contro[...]
High-capacity lifting is in ever-increasing demand. Julian Champkin looks at the market for hoists with capacities of 5t and above. High capacity’ is an overused phrase, but we recently delivered a [...]
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