Northeastern Brazil's Itaqui port in Maranhão state has planned a USD 3.19bn project to expand its operational infrastructure, local media reported this week. Improvements to the port will include th[...]
Lifting equipment manufacturer Verlinde’s South African partner company Akhanani Cranes is expanding its product range and services in the southeast African countries of Mozambique and Zimbabwe due [...]
John Bensalhia investigates the latest developments in hoisting equipment and machinery for the power generation industry Recent statistics in fields such as wind, solar, oil and gas power showcase th[...]
Special steel product fabricator Formaco, has recently signed a contract with Irizar Forge, the international rebranding of Spanish heavy-lift hook manufacturer Forjas Irizar, to become the firm’s D[...]
Engineered Material Handling (EMH) has extended its Nomad its free-standing crane range with the addition of a double-girder version. The company said the double-girder overhead cranes are “durable [...]
Digitalisation in hoist technology has brought us such things as antisway mechanisms, load monitoring, automatic speed control, and zone control. But as Julian Champkin reports, that is just the start[...]
Port operator Asian Terminals is expanding its capacity at the Manila South Harbour to over one million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) to meet increasing container volumes at the Port of Manila. Asia[...]
Bolloré Group has ordered nine rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes for the Meridian Port Services Container Terminal in Tema, Ghana and Benin Container Terminal in Cotonou, Benin. Konecranes will supply[...]
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[...]