Continue reading "Konecranes delivers 39 reach stackers to Germany"
The BwFuhrparkService GmbH, the fleet service company especially for the German Bundeswehr (Federal Armed Forces), ordered 39 Konecranes reach stackers in March last year. Specially adapted for harsh conditions, they will be used to handle containers in military locations around the country. Since the beginning of September 2020, Konecranes has been modernizing the fleet with …
Cometto SPMT relocates crane for Wiesbauer
Cometto MSPE self-propelled vehicles were used to relocate the Liebherr LR11000 crawler crane within the Rugendorf wind farm. A total of four wind turbines make up a wind farm of the latest generation in Upper Franconia. In the handling of this project, the crawler crane was disassembled after the erection of a wind turbine and …
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Goldhofer wins “Global Market Leader Champion 2021” award
Goldhofer has received the “Global Market Leader Champion 2021” award for the fourth time. The University of St. Gallen and the Academy of German Global Market Leaders (Schwäbisch-Hall) have confirmed the important role played by the Memmingen-based company in the field of heavy haulage and oversized cargo transportation vehicles. Photo: Lothar Holder, CEO at Goldhofer …
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1,285 kilometers through Africa with Faymonville
Ghanaian heavy haulage specialist MONPE Heavy Haulage has successfully transported six power engines from Ghana port to Niger over a total distance of about 1,285 km. “Special transports are our daily business, but this mission was really exceptional within the exceptional. It’s a prestigious project and sets a benchmark”, declared Peter Everett from MONPE Heavy …
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Cometto Eco1000: an ace up the sleeve
Schares has invested in two new Eco1000 transporters from Cometto to transport bridge elements in Oberhausen, Germany. It was the company's premiere in the self-propelled segment. The first six of a total of eleven bridge elements had to be moved by Schares in a night-time operation. To lift the bridge elements, the ideal transport solution …
P&O Ferrymasters announces direct multimodal service connecting Czech Republic to Britain
P&O Ferrymasters has announced the next step in the expansion of its pan-European logistics network with the introduction of a new train service from Lovosice in the Czech Republic to Europoort – Rotterdam with the option for onward sea connections to Britain. The company will run its own trains in both directions from Lovosice, a strategic …
AirBridgeCargo Airlines delivers vaccine manufacturing equipment
AirBridgeCargo Airlines, one of the leading air cargo carriers for transportation of special cargo, transports COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing equipment to ramp up production capacity of up to 600,000 vials per day. A total of 840 tonnes of equipment enabling automation lines for the manufacturing of coated cyclo olefin (COP) polymer vaccines containers will be delivered …
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Goldhofer’s trailling dolly solution proves its worth
Hofmann Kran-Vermietung has relied on Goldhofer’s new »bladeS« blade hauler in combination with its self-tracking trailing dolly for the transportation of three 75-meter-long wind turbine blades from Rostock to the Hopsten-Schale wind farm more than 400 kilometers away. Goldhofer’s »bladeS« is available in a number of different combinations. Through the use of a 5-axle tractor …
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First assembly carried out using Liebherr’s Remote Service App
The LHM 420 is the first mobile harbour crane ever to be fully assembled with the aid of Liebherr’s new Remote Service tool. The crane was delivered to Euroamérica S.A. in Campana, as the first of this type delivered to Argentina, fully disassembled and due for handover in June 2020 but due to the current …
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AAL delivers two Siemens generators for Europe and Iraq
AAL has recently delivered two Siemens ‘S-Gen’ generators, weighing close to 350 mt each, for two new clean energy gas-fired power plants in Europe and Maysan, Iraq that will help to generate a total clean energy output of 1,680 MW. The units were built at Siemens’ worldwide energy hub in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, and …
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