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Cranes

Osprey delivers world’s most powerful steam turbine

Osprey Group has recently transported a new low pressure rotor, weighing 257-tonnes, for the world’s most powerful steam turbine at Hinkley Point C, in Somerset. The new low-pressure rotor forms…

Acquisitions

Blue Water acquires Guyana-based Falcon Logistics

Blue Water acquired the Guyana-owned and operated Falcon Logistics Inc. The international transport and logistics company handles large volumes of cargo for the Oil and Gas sector into Guyana and with…

Accessories

The Crosby Group expands Verton’s load orientation technology in North America

Verton and The Crosby Group have announced an expansion of Verton’s load orientation technology in North America.  As a partner and Master Distributor of Verton products for the Americas, The…

Construction

M.J. van Riel’s crane fleet goes green

The Netherlands-based M.J. van Riel recently took the first Liebherr MK73-3.1 ‘Hybrid Power Concept’ mobile tower crane into operation. This 38.5-metre crane with a maximum lifting capacity of 6,000 kilograms…

Shipping

Steerprop signs five-year contract with Siem Offshore

Finish Steerprop has signed a five-year contract with Siem Offshore regarding the propulsion monitoring service Steerprop Care Premium for three of the Norway-based offshore vessel company’s platform supply ships. Steerprop…

Equipment

Mammoet-Giant Taiwan ensures delivery of offshore wind pin piles

Mammoet-Giant Taiwan is currently in charge of transporting a total of 333 pin piles for the construction of Greater Changhua 1 & 2a Offshore Wind Farms. The team is also…

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Heavy transport

430-ton bridge moves with Cometto

A 430-ton bridge is being moved at Plaidt in the Rhineland Palatinate, Western Germany, and Markus Meckelholt, SPMT operator at Autokrane Schares, shares with us his day full of movements.…

America

Mammoet moves 2,200t modules in short timeframe

Offshore construction specialist Estaleiros do Brasil Ltda. (EBR) needed the load-out of seven modules to be engineered, planned, and executed in the space of just a few weeks. These modules…

Auction

Wallenius Wilhelmsen leads funding round for Equippo

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Group, the Norwegian-Swedish global leader in equipment and vehicle logistics, is leading a major funding round for Swiss founded start-up Equippo, a full service marketplace for used construction…

Deliveries

New Nooteboom XL Mega Windmill Trailer for Linden Transport

As the industry grows, the wind turbines are becoming larger, blades are longer and tower sections are growing in diameter. As a result, the base towers of these turbines have…

Energy

Second life for wind turbine blades in Spain

Last year, GE Renewable Energy signed preliminary agreements with German and French-Swiss companies to dismantle, shred and co-process the blades from some of the continent’s onshore turbines that are approaching…

Energy

First successful docking at Al Zour refinery

In January a first ship has berthed to the offshore loading platform of Al Zour refinery in Kuwait to deliver the products necessary for its start-up. This operation is the…

Heavy transport

Collett acquire Plant Speed wind energy fleet

Collett & Sons Ltd and Bristol’s Plant Speed have agreed a deal which will see their specialist wind turbine equipment join the Collett fleet.  Taking the decision to remove themselves…

Energy

Volvo Penta upgrades its power offer

Over the last few years the global manufacturer of engines and complete power systems for boats, vessels and industrial applications, Volvo Penta, has introduced not only the full Stage V…

Cranes

Spanish Grues Padrosa orders two new Tadano AC 4.100L-1 cranes

Spanish crane service provider Grues Padrosa ordered two new units of the Tadano AC 4.100L-1 model at the same time, and the two cranes were able to show off their…

Cranes

Three Liebherr LG 1750s make their debut at Spanish wind farm 


Crane and heavy transport company Transbiaga is working with three new Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom mobile cranes in Spain’s largest wind farm Gecama. There, 67 wind turbines with a…

Deliveries

Mar-Train Heavy Haulage ensures rapid progress with Goldhofer

Mar-Train Heavy Haulage Ltd, based outside Lisburn in Northern Ireland, has recently taken a delivery of  Goldhofer STHP-ET 12 (5+7) heavy-duty combination with the redesigned RA 2-110 tower clamp system…

Agreement

Thistle Wind Partners land 2 GW in highly competitive ScotWind offshore wind leasing round

Crown Estate Scotland announced that Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a consortium of DEME Concessions, Qair Marine SAS, and Aspiravi International NV, have been awarded 2GW worth of option areas in…

Orders

DP World completes £40M Southampton investment

DP World has just announced that 11 of the most sustainable straddle carriers yet manufactured will go into service at Southampton with immediate effect, completing a £40m investment over the…

Cranes

Schuch prepares to face future challenges with Liebherr

Crane and heavy haulage contractor Schuch, which has several outlets in the Rhine-Main and Rhine-Neckar conurbations, has ordered 15 new mobile cranes from Liebherr with lifting capacities between 90 and…

Container handlers

Three Liebherr Auto RMGs for CSX Intermodal in North Carolina

Liebherr Container Cranes delivered three fully automated rail mounted gantry cranes to the CSX Carolina Connector Intermodal Terminal (CCX) in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The cabinless RMGs have been supplied…

Accessories

DC Battery Technologies launches new 4,000 Series Lithium Iron batteries

DC Battery Technologies Ltd has announced the launch of the new 4,000 Series of Lithium Iron Phosphate LiFePO4 batteries. The new 4,000 Series offers a range of benefits such as…

Construction

Second London Gateway warehouse to be build

DP World in the UK has announced that it will build a 119,000 sq ft green warehouse at London Gateway’s port-centric Logistics Park to meet unprecedented demand for space at…

Middle East

Abu Dhabi to host region’s first tyre storage and distribution hub

AD Ports Group has signed an agreement with China-based Shandong Port Group, to establish a Tyre Hub at KIZAD for the storage and distribution of tyres. AD Ports Group will…

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