Heavy lift equipment – Move it magazine

16th July 202116th July 2021

Osprey deploys new technology

The Bristol-headquartered Osprey Group, which specialises in finding innovative ways to transport abnormally heavy and large items across land and sea, now stores project imagery and documents in a Canto digital asset management (DAM) library. Cloud-based, the software allows team members and photographers in the field to capture and store files and photography for commercial …

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7th July 20217th July 2021

The 1,300th maritime crane shipped to Ghana

Since the start of production in 2005, Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH has manufactured and delivered well over 1,000 maritime cranes. Today, the numerous mobile harbour, ship and offshore cranes are in use in over 100 countries on all continents. Now the 1,300th crane has left the Rostock premises to its destination in Ghana. The LHM 550 …

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7th July 20217th July 2021

Three moves in three days

Edwards Moving & Rigging relied on two six-axle ADDrive combinations from Goldhofer to complete three moves in three days. The scope of work was the transport of three rotors weighing 308,686 pounds each from a rail siding into the turbine bay of a nuclear plant in the southeastern region of the U.S. In addition to …

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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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21st May 202121st May 2021

Mammoet purchases Land & Marine’s linear winch equipment

Mammoet has announced the formal purchase of the linear winch Fleet and associated pipe pulling equipment. The purchase of the winches by Mammoet includes two state-of-the-art 800t capacity linear winches, which are unique to the industry, their design is patented and allows socket passing under load as well as utilizing advanced hydraulic controls for accurate …

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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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20th May 202120th May 2021

Modulift Team Up With Mocean Energy

A custom-made 50 WLL lifting frame designed by Modulift ensured that the Mocean Energy’s new Blue X wave energy prototype could take it’s first ever dip in to the cold waters of the North Sea. Mocean Energy, one of the key players in the wave energy industry, have been working on turning their concept in …

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28th April 202128th April 2021

Boeing 747 flight simulator takes off

One of the leading Middle East heavy lift, heavy transport and energy solutions company, Al Faris, has lifted a Boeing 747 pilot training simulator using Enerpac SCJ-50 self-locking cube jacks. Previously Al Faris may have used either a crane or climbing jacks to install the 11T, 4.3(l) x 3.7(d) x 7.6(h)m flight simulator for aviation …

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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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22nd April 202122nd April 2021

Offshore International joins forces with Mammoet

Abu Dhabi Ports’ offshore logistics service provider, Offshore Support and Logistics Services Company (OFCO – Offshore International), has announced the start of a collaboration with Mammoet United Arab Emirates as part of a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two organisations. OFCO, will work closely with the heavy lift and transport specialist to …

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