The Edinburgh tram network has enlisted Street Crane Company to install a double girder overhead crane at the company’s Gogar depot. The 6.3 tonne overhead crane will be used to maintain a fleet of [...]
Variable frequency drive technology and specialised systems are helping to optimise the performance and versatility of today’s crane and hoist brakes. Daniel Searle reports. Crane performance has be[...]
German rental firm Schmidbaue has used two Liebherr LTC 1045-3.1 all terrain cranes to replace the crane track for a gantry crane at the crane manufacturers own excavator plant in Kirchdorf. The capac[...]
A metal manufacturer in Glossop, Derbyshire, UK, has appeared in court after an employee was injured when he was struck by a container as it swung from an overhead travelling crane, the UK’s Health [...]
Container terminal operator, APM Terminals Gothenburg, has placed an order for two ship to shore (STS) cranes and two rail mounted gantry cranes with Liebherr Container Cranes, the company announced r[...]
DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali Port has successfully electrified eight diesel-powered rubber-tyred Gantry cranes (RTG), the marine terminal operator announced recently. The company said the switch fr[...]
Port crane and reach stacker manufacturer Kalmar has received an order for six E-One rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTG) from Indonesian container terminal operator, PT Terminal Petikemas Surabaya (TPS),[...]
Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT) has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Technology Corporation (MHIMT) to install remote-control operations for the 29 RTGs at Contai[...]
Singapore’s Bosch Rexroth has installed a Konecranes crane through the manufacturer’s Rentall plan. Global engineering company Bosch Rexroth has installed a new Konecranes CXT crane at its Singapo[...]
Mombasa-based Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has ordered 2 hybrid E-One 2 rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) from Kalmar, it was announced this week. Set for delivery during 2014 the order is valued aroun[...]