Heavy Lifting news
Sarens has recently relocated the Pharaoh Cheops’ ship from the Khufu Boat Museum to its new location at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo located ten kilometres away. Relocating a…
Located south of the A70, near the village of Glespin on the Douglas Estate, the thirteen turbine site features Nordex N133 onshore wind turbines with an individual blade length of…
Goldhofer has recently received a Longevity Award from the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association. SC&RA is an international organization comprised of more than 1,350 members from 46 nations. SC&RA’s Longevity…
Engineered Rigging has appointed Nick Darlage as director of projects based at the company’s facility in Valparaiso, Ind., where he coordinates internal and external resources throughout the project life cycle…
Bolloré Transport & Logistics Benin teams transported six electrical transformers weighing a total of 464 tonnes to equip numerous thermal power stations in Benin. This operation was carried out on…
A 70 years old chestnut tree at Alphen can den Rijn in the Netherlands had to be moved to make room for 60 new residential units. Kraanbedrijf Nederhoff b.v. Sjoerd…
Manitowoc has launched largest topless crane, the Potain MCT 805, for key Asia-Pacific and Emerging markets. Manufactured at at Manitowoc’s Zhangjiagang, China factory, the new model, which is similar to…
The demand from the market for large crawler cranes is growing, for example in the petrochemicals industry and port handling involving enormous components for offshore applications. Driven by the energy…
Nooteboom has introduced the latest addition to its range, the OSD-73-04 semi low-loader with hydraulic widening for the European market. Specially developed for the transport of machines weighing up to…
USA-based heavy lift and rigging equipment rental and sales company, Engineered Rigging, combined its expertise to help a contractor dismantle and remove the 90-year-old Wittpenn Bridge in New Jersey. The…
One of the major players in heavy lifting and transportation in the Middle East region, the Al Faris Group, further expanded its heavy haulage fleet with the addition of 64…
On behalf of Volkerlaser, Collett Team have completed the delivery of two bridges from their point of manufacture at Northallerton’s Allerton Steel, via BAW Coatings in Sheffield, before final destination…
AntwerpXL is looking for its next group of forty rising stars under the age of 40 from across the breakbulk and heavy lift industry. Those working within the industry are…
A fleet of XCMG construction machinery equipment has been operating nonstop on the construction of Africa’s largest hydropower plant, the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station (the “Station”) in Tanzania, for the…
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has just announced the acquisition of ALS, the European non-asset specialist logistics provider offering solutions for oversized, abnormal, exceptional and heavy lift cargo shipments by road, rail, air…
Heavy transport specialist, Allelys, has recently executed the UK’s first-ever double girder frame convoy while delivering a reactor and transformer to Ninfield. The reactor weighing 150te, and transformer weighing 195te,…
The new crawler crane from Liebherr, the LR 1100.1, is optimised for all typical lifting applications in the 100-tonne category. It can be configured either with a main boom up…
BMS Heavy Cranes A/S an d AS Manutention have announced a Joint-Venture Agreement in order to strengthen the position of the company its on the French market. The Joint-Venture, ASM…
Nijmegen-based Wido has recently started using a 2-axle Nooteboom low-loader with pendle axles, especially for the transport of tiny houses. This EURO-PX low-loader was custom built according to the requirements…
EAH company relied on a 4-axle Eco1000 with a power pack integrated under the loading platform to handle the transport of a 120-ton press with flying colours in the factory…
US-based ML Crane Group has added two major divisions to the company, Wind & Renewables Division and Capital Projects Division. The Wind & Renewables Division’s department will be based out…
The European association for the abnormal road transport and mobile crane rental industry (ESTA) has just confirmed that Fabio Belli, CEO of Italian heavy transport and lifting company Fagioli, has…
Earthworks specialist for all fields of construction, Erdmännchen Erd- und Tiefbau GmbH of Ebsdorfergrund, whose activities also include road construction and transportation of the relevant plant and materials was looking…
C.H. Robinson Project Logistics recently undertook a huge project to help transport 720 pieces of equipment to Turkey weighing a total of 2,463mtn. The job spanned 16 months and included…
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