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Container Cranes

Liebherr Delivers STS Crane to PSA Penn

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. is delighted to announce the recent sale of a Ship-To-Shore (STS) container crane to PSA Penn Terminals in Philadelphia, USA. This acquisition marks a continuation of…

Equipment

Konecranes Expands North American Footprint with Whiting Corporation Acquisition

Konecranes has bolstered its position in the strategically important North American market by acquiring the industrial and nuclear crane and crane service operations of privately-held Whiting Corporation. With over a…

Transport

Mammoet secures two US offshore wind contracts

Mammoet has recently landed two major offshore wind projects in the United States. These projects, scheduled to begin in 2023, involve various port-related services, such as load-in, load-out, handling, and…

Crawler cranes

Initial Deployment of LR 1400 SX Crane

Liebherr’s LR 1400 SX crawler crane has been deployed on a construction site in Atlanta, Georgia by Full Tilt Crane Services. The crane is being used to lift concrete tilt-up…

USA

Expansion of ABB’s Robotics Factory in the US

ABB has begun construction on the expansion of its North American robotics headquarters and manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The $20 million investment is expected to be completed by…

Cranes

Sims Crane & Equipment Acquires LR 1250.1 Unplugged

Sims Crane & Equipment, a crane rental and rigging service, has expanded its fleet with the purchase of a Liebherr LR 1250.1 unplugged crawler crane. This battery-powered machine is the…

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Siemens Gamesa to build offshore wind nacelle facility in New York

Siemens Gamesa plans to build a large offshore nacelle manufacturing facility at the Port of Coeymans in New York, pending the selection of their wind turbines in the state’s third…

Cranes

Position changes at Link-Belt

Roy Burger, Government Sales and International Sales Manager, announced his retirement after 40 years of service at Link-Belt Cranes. He will retire on December 31, 2022. Burger has been leading…

Offshore

Deme secures inter-array cable transportation and installation contract in the US

Deme Offshore US has been awarded a contract by Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and bp, for the transportation and installation of inter-array cables for the Empire…

America

Incremental launch method deployed to construct Kentucky’s tallest bridge

Bush and Burchett Inc. was contracted to built the Pond Creek Bridge on US460 in Pike County, Kentucky, the tallest bridge in the Bluegrass State and one of the tallest…

Appointment

Engineered Rigging appoints new Director of Projects

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…

Appointment

Fredrik Högberg joins the Volvo Penta team

Volvo Penta has welcomed Fredrik Högberg as a new member of its Executive Management Group. As of 15 May, Fredrik Högberg will take up the position of President of Volvo…

Heavy lift

Engineered Rigging overcomes bridge demolition challenges

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…

Cranes

ML Crane Group adds two major divisions 

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…

Equipment

Engineered Rigging adds Enerpac JS500 Jack-up System to its rental fleet

Engineered Rigging is now accepting rental reservations for its new Enerpac JS500 Jack-up System. This heavy lifting technology, with its 2,200-ton capacity, will be in high demand as states and…

Heavy lift

Launch of United 07 Americas

United Heavy Lift welcomes Ocean7 Projects (Ocean7) as a partner in the UHL Americas, Inc. branch office in Houston, Texas. Both UHL and Ocean7 specialize in the transportation of heavy…

Asia

AAL delivers tower components for US petroleum refinery project

AAL Shipping recently delivered 456-metric-tonne industrial tower components to the US West Coast. The cargo was loaded in South Korea onboard the 31,000-deadweight heavy lift AAL Pusan and transported across…

Breakbulk

Creative solutions to keep the customer’s freight moving

C.H. Robinson Project Logistics has recently completed a nine-month project involving multiple ocean shipments of oversized cargo from Portugal to the USA. First, they utilized out-of-gauge flat racks and open-top…

Air Cargo

Antonov Airlines transports Turksat 5B satellite for launch by SpaceX

Antonov Airlines in cooperation with Bollore Logistics Space has transported Turkey’s new telecommunication satellite Turksat 5B on board one of its AN-124-100 aircraft from Toulouse, France, to Florida, USA, later launched…

Construction

Enerpac JS-500 rental now available in USA

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…

Air Cargo

Actitrans France delivers for Las Vegas Tower

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…

Orders

Maher Terminals LLC opts for three new Liebherr Megamax STS cranes

Liebherr Container Cranes have been awarded the contract for the supply of three ship to shore (STS) container cranes for Maher Terminals LLC at the Port of New York &…

Asia

Multimodal shipment of forging machine

C.H. Robinson Project Logistics has arranged the shipment of a forging machine from South Korea to the USA. The job required a suite of service offerings including ocean & barge…

Heavy transport

Largest onshore modules on 496 axle-lines

Mammoet crews at the Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV) site in San Patricio County, Texas have recently completed the heavy haul of the largest modules to be received so far…

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