Every MOVE IT story about France: lifts, moves, contracts, projects and people.
An eco-friendly residential district, named ‘Parc du Lac,’ is underway near Versailles, France, on historic grounds featuring a 17th-century canal from the Palace of Versailles’ former water supply system. Liebherr…
Haropa Port and Verso Energy have inked a deal to establish a cutting-edge low-carbon hydrogen and synthetic fuels plant on Haropa Port land in Grand-Quevilly. The €500 million project, slated…
Lhyfe, one of the global leaders in renewable green hydrogen production, has secured the opportunity to develop a green hydrogen production and distribution site in Montoir-de-Bretagne, France. This achievement follows…
Eiffage, through its subsidiary Eiffage Route, has been honored by the French government in the 2023 “Routes et Rues” competition for innovative projects. The recognition is for Carbon Light, a…
The 17th edition of SOLUTRANS, to be held from 21 to 25 November 2023 at Lyon Eurexpo, promises to be a strategically important gathering for all industry professionals. With its stand…
The Provence Grand Large offshore wind farm in France is the country’s first pilot floating wind farm. It consists of three 8.4 MW wind turbines from Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy,…
Kuehne+Nagel has received its first delivery of 23 Renault Trucks electric vehicles to be used for road transport services in France. The handover ceremony was attended by Xavier Léger, Managing…
EDF Renewables and Maple Power have been selected by the French Ministry of Energy Transition to lead the development of the Centre Manche 1 offshore wind farm in Normandy, following…
A new railway bridge has been successfully installed near Avignon, France by Aertssen Cranes, a company based in Antwerp. The bridge deck, weighing 220 tonnes and measuring 24.80 metres long…
Renault Trucks has launched CampX, a new innovation and collaboration center at its Lyon site, as the company aims to keep up with the latest technological developments in sustainable mobility.…
Blue Solutions and Bluebus, which are subsidiaries of the Bolloré Group, have signed two memorandums of understanding with Forsee Power to collaborate on two new projects. The first project involves…
The “reactor pressure vessel” is only 13 metres long and weighs 500 tonnes, yet it has the capability to produce the necessary heat to generate steam for the world’s largest…
VINCI Construction subsidiary Dumez Côte d’Azur and architectural firm Wilmotte & Associés have been commissioned by the French Ministry of the Interior and the city of Nice to construct a…
On January 18th at 5:30 PM, the Federal Raser (200mL/24mL), a bulk carrier, passed through the large lock in the port of Caen-Ouistreham, carrying 24,200 T of wheat. This marks…
French pioneer in alternative-power freight transportation , XPO, has purchased 100 electric trucks from Renault Trucks. The decision to invest in electric trucks follows the successful testing of the Renault…
Five years ago Mammoet was approached by Framatome to assist with the removal and replacement of four steam generators from inside its nuclear power plants in France. The main challenge…
“Arboretum”, a park with 1,000 planted trees and modern workplaces surrounded by an abundance of wood is the vision for Europe’s largest timber campus in Nanterre near Paris. Ten Liebherr…
With the aim to modernise its fleet of mobile cranes with lifting capacities from 50 to 110 tonnes, Schmidbauer has opted for four mobile cranes from Liebherr. The order also…
The Tadano CC 38.650-1 crawler crane has performed exceptionaly when lifting a 250 tonne bridge during the night in the city of Hazebrouck, located in the north of France. This…
Bolloré Logistics has recently delivered an H125 helicopter from France to Santiago de Chile. The 11 m squirrel is a versatile device suitable for business transport, medical evacuation, or urban…
French equipment installer, Bovis Group, has used Enerpac cube jacks to install two 16-tonne presses one on top of the other. By combining Enerpac SCJ-50 cube jacks with load-holding, wooden…
Sarens has placed an order for 24 Tadano all terrain cranes and Tadano E-Packs for their different European subsidiaries such as Belgium, Netherlands, France, Poland, and UK as well as…
Kalmar has received an order for 12 Kalmar Hybrid Straddle Carriers to GMP (Générale de Manutention Portuaire) in Le Havre, France, bringing the GMP’s fleet of Kalmar equipment to a…
To reduce natural resource usage and its trucks’ environmental impact, Renault Trucks has announced the creation of its disassembly plant. The Used Parts Factory is the logical next step after…
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