Promat took place in Chicago in April, with crane and handling equipment manufacturers lining up alongside other members of the logistics industry. Daniel Searle attended. Germany-based Demag celebrat[...]
A crane malfunction has caused a 27t container of avocados to fall 7m from a container crane on to a ship loading at the Port of Tauranga, New Zealand, local news reported. The incident saw a supporti[...]
Work started last week to dismantle the launching gantry dubbed ‘Big Blue’ on the Newmarket Viaduct Replacement Project, the New Zealand Transport Agency has announced. It will take four weeks to [...]
Accomplished hoist operators can move a load without causing it to sway. But it is a skill acquired only with training and experience. Julian Champkin finds that anti-sway systems do even more than th[...]
Scottish structural steel fabrication and erection contractor, J & D Pierce, has awarded the contract to supply six cranes for its Glengarnock facility in Ayrshire, Scotland to Konecranes UK. The [...]
A Chinese drilling rig exporter has begun construction of a massive mobile gantry crane, which it claims will have the largest lifting capacity of any in the world at 22,000t. In an announcement last [...]
Not every load can be hung from a hook – frequently, some kind of special attachment is needed. Julian Champkin reports. A crane or hoist with a hook on the end seems a clear and simple solution to [...]
Port workers at the UK's Port of Felixstowe set a new record for the speed of loading and unloading a ship, with the port claiming that a container was handled almost every minute. The port set a new [...]
Liftket Hoffmann GmbH, the German supplier of electric chain hoists and control systems, has acquired Action Lift, an exclusive distributor of Liftket and Chainmaster products in France and Spain with[...]
The Middle East is oil-rich but unstable. Julian Champkin finds the market for lifting machinery has been on hold, but is poised to move upwards. The Middle East is a unique market, for lifting gear a[...]
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