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Enerpac hydraulic cylinders will have a key role in the final construction of the ITER fusion tokamak in 2024. On completion of assembly of the tokamak’s vacuum vessel sectors, nine…
When President Biden signed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law last month, he destined an already booming construction industry to reach new heights. With the US government’s hefty investment…
Just before Christmas, Actitrans Overseas moved by air a 13tn freight from Paris to Las Vegas for the installation of the Las Vegas Tower. Actitrans Director, Hugues Mayeur, explained: “The…
Allelys recently completed the delivery of two 199te rotors and two 62te stators for Keith Substation in Scotland. The components were delivered in two phases, two months apart with one…
PT LV Logistics has set a new domestic record for the Indonesian heavy haul industry with the delivery of RFCC plant components to the Balikpapan refinery in East Kalimantan using …
Mammoet signed an order for a total of eight cranes at Tadano in Zweibrücken. In addition to two Tadano CC 38.650-1 lattice boom crawler cranes and an AC 3.045-1 City…
Mammoet has been awarded the contract for the transportation of an 1800-ton reactor for the new PC ORLEN Lietuva facility in North-west Lithuania. Come August 2023, the 100-meter-long, 6.5-meter-wide and…
After months of challenging operations executed by Fagioli to remove the six sections of the Berkan B wreck, eventually the wreck parts are heading by barge to their final destination…
Van der Vlist recently transported two tanks of nearly 6,00 diameter and 24.500 kgs each from the North of Spain to Poland on a gearless charter vessel. Arriving at the…
P. Schwandner Logistik + Transport GmbH has added a number of new Goldhofer transportation solutions to its special vehicle fleet. That includes three »BLADES« trailers for the transportation of turbine…
Freja Transport & Logistics recently handled two project transports involving railway machines. In the first, the locomotive, which was over 40m long and 4m high, was transported from Denmark to…
Mammoet assisted its customer, Capital Power with an emergency stator replacement at the Genesee Generating Station, located southwest of Edmonton, Alberta. The first challenge faced by the project team was…
With lifting capacity of 1,600 tonnes, the CC 8800-1 from Tadano is definitely one of the most powerful lattice boom crawler crane in the fleet of the Kuwaiti crane service…
Drydocks World has completed the fabrication of the Alpha topside, which has successfully sailed away from the fabrication yard in Dubai to the Netherlands earlier this week. The 700 MW…
Spira Baugeräte und Schalungslogistik, based in Speyer Germany, added a new Potain MDT 569 to its rental fleet of 60 self-erecting and 50 top-slewing cranes. The formwork and construction equipment…
Mammoet assisted Rijkswaterstaat and contractor combination KWS – VES – DDM to successfully remove the steel arch bridge at Vianen, the Netherlands. The work started at 8:30 am and lasted…
The latest addition to Modulift’s modular range, the new MOD 1100/2000t spreader beam at 33m span, has been used in it’s very first lift in Dover in the UK. The…
The French transport, heavy lift, industrial moves and logistics company, Bovis, has used a combination of Enerpac SCJ-50 Cube Jacks and an Enerpac ETR-Series Trolley System to overcome low factory…
In no less than 62 hours of rigorous offshore testing, tech scale-up Seaqualize successfully completed offshore trials for its inline Active Heave Compensator (iAHC), the ‘Delta600’. Together with testing partners…
There is high demand for mobile cranes in Latin America for the mining industry and for erecting wind turbines. In particular, Liebherr has delivered an above average number of mobile…
From September of 2020 through June of 2021, Sarens has raised six STS cranes at Port Said in Egypt. The project, which involved inserting 11,5m extension legs below each STS…
ANTONOV Company via its agent Antonov Logistics SALIS GmbH has been awarded a five-year contract with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to continue working…
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing has extended its range of crawler cranes to include lifting capacities of up to 400 t. The first LR 1400 SX have already left the Liebherr factory. With the…
Engineered Rigging’s team contributed to the success of the largest construction project in Chile by finding the ideal rigging solution for the dismantling of a large-scale construction crane inside of…
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