Europe – Move it magazine

27th May 202127th May 2021

Nine Tadano cranes for Hovago

In the year of its 75th anniversary, Dutch crane service provider Hovago has ordered no fewer than nine cranes from Tadano: three AC 5.220-1 and two AC 5.250-1 all terrain cranes, two GTC-1800EX telescopic crawler cranes and two CC 38.650-1 lattice boom crawler cranes. The first models will be delivered in the fourth quarter of …

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26th May 202126th May 2021

L&L International & Eastway Global collaborate

L&L International de Colombia has recently collaborated with their UFO partner, Eastway Global Forwarding, for the air shipments of two aircraft engines. Each engine had a gross weight of 13,110kg and dimensions of 490 x 320 x 298cm. The shipments from Bogota to Amsterdam took place earlier this month. Emiliano Leal Acevedo at L&L explains; …

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25th May 202125th May 2021

Boosting sustainability by reusing lifting equipment

Saipem, a service provider in the oil and gas industry, has been commissioned with an offshore project in the Baltic Sea. The project involves using ships to lay an underwater gas pipeline of around 275 kilometres in length. Hendrik Veder Group is helping Saipem to refurbish lifting equipment that it already owns, so that it …

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25th May 202125th May 2021

First Japanese Tadano GR-700EX-4 rough terrain crane arrives in Europe

The first Tadano GR-700EX-4 from Japan arrived at the Tadano Nederland BV location in Purmerend. With the boom length of 47 meters and the lifting capacity of 70 tonnes at a radius of three meters, the GR-700EX-4 is the entry point for the new Tadano rough terrain crane family. Its synchronized telescoping system can extend …

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21st May 202121st May 2021

Kalmar and SPPA extend collaboration

Kalmar will supply Servicios Portuarios Puerto De Algeciras, S.A (SPPA) with five units of the Kalmar T2i terminal tractor for its operations in the Port of Algeciras, southern Spain. The order, which also includes the refurbishment of five existing Kalmar terminal tractors operated by SPPA, was booked in Cargotec's 2021 Q2 order intake, with delivery …

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20th May 202120th May 2021

Enerpac lifts in Hungary

Hungarian heavy lifting and machine assembly specialist, Megakran Plc, relied upon their Enerpac SL400N hydraulic gantry to move an 85-tonne sheet metal press between factories located in Somogy County in southwest Hungary. The SL400N gantry provided easier access to the press than using a mobile crane. With a large vehicle production industry, Hungary is one …

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11th May 202111th May 2021

New bridge in Leverkusen, Germany

Eiffage, through Eiffage Métal and its subsidiaries SEH (Germany) and Iemants (Belgium), recently won, in a consortium with Hochtief and Max Bögl, the contract to build a new bridge on the Rhine in Leverkusen, Germany. The contract amounts to €180 million in total, with Eiffage’s share worth €116 million. The new 2x3 lane bridge will …

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30th April 202130th April 2021

Seaside adventure with Faymonville VarioMAX Plus lowbed

Transport company Martlé Exceptional Moving & Lifting has relied on Faymonville VarioMAX Plus lowbed semi-trailer to move a 90-tonne pile driver and a Liebherr LRB355 drilling machine from Bruges to Knokke in Belgium over a distance of 20 km. "We examined the entire route precisely beforehand," says Serge Martlé, Managing Director of the transport company …

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29th April 202129th April 2021

EBRD financing earmarked for Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Slovak Republic

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has subscribed to a €67 million ticket as part of an inaugural eight-year €600 million green bond issuance by VGP NV, a pan-European provider of logistics and semi-industrial real estate. The Bank’s investment will support the development of sustainable semi-industrial and logistics parks in Hungary, Latvia, Romania …

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28th April 202128th April 2021

Largest items ever moved on Polish roads

Tasked by Polish company Grupa Azoty, one of the main players on the European fertilizer and chemical market, Mammoet recently completed the first scope of work that will lead to the construction of the propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene (PDH/PP) blocks of its client’s chemical facility. The project took place in the town of Police, in …

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