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Cranes

German Crane Industry Leaders Invest in Liebherr Fleet Modernization

Several prominent companies within Germany’s crane, heavy haulage, and work platform sector, including Herrmann & Wittrock, Titschkus & Wittrock, Ulferts, and Ulferts & Wittrock, have collectively placed an order for…

Construction

German Railway Renews Bridge with Precision Crane Operation

The German Railway recently completed the renewal of a bridge over the Riß in Biberach, employing a Liebherr crawler crane LR 1750/2 from RIGA MAINZ, a crane and heavy haulage…

Engines

Cummins Unveils Pilot Installation Centre for Emissions Testing in Germany

Cummins Inc. has recently unveiled its new Pilot Installation Centre at the Marktheidenfeld site in Germany, further fortifying its commitment to advancing vehicle and machinery in-use emissions compliance testing. This…

Transport

Van Oord Engages Jumbo Offshore for Baltic Sea Transportation and Installation

Van Oord has entered into a strategic partnership with Jumbo Offshore for the vital task of transporting and installing transition pieces within the context of the Baltic Eagle offshore wind…

Lifting

Liebherr Crane Revitalizes Historic Church in Bad Reichenhall

Renovation work in the picturesque town of Bad Reichenhall, Germany, is taking place against the backdrop of majestic mountains. The focal point of the project is the restoration of the…

Lifting

Mammoet Lifting Solution for Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning

The decommissioning of the nuclear power plant Unterweser in Germany marked the first of five pressurized water reactor plants that would be shut down. For operator PreussenElektra, it was important…

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Transport

DSV joins research project for electrifying road freight

The concept of trucks being able to charge while driving through an overhead contact line may become a reality in the future. Currently, a research project is underway in Frankfurt,…

Cranes

Palfinger’s first flagship store in Germany

Palfinger is expanding its German footprint with the construction of a new location in Poing near Munich. “We are combining several functions – a large showroom, efficient service workshops that…

Energy

Cobra IS, a Vinci subsidiary, secures €4 billion contract for two offshore windfarm energy converter platforms

Amprion Offshore has awarded a contract to a consortium consisting of Dragados Offshore (a subsidiary of Cobra IS) and Siemens Energy, to design, construct, and install the LanWin1 and LanWin3…

Heavy transport equipment

TII Group awarded “World Market Leader 2023”

Renowned German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche has named TII Group as the world market leader in the mechanical and plant engineering category. The magazine reported on this in a special edition…

Construction

Himoinsa supplies power to build largest bridge ever erected over the Danube

Himoinsa has supplied 15 generator sets capable of supplying more than 8 MW of power for the construction of a major section of the Pan-European Corridor IV, which runs from Dresden…

Environment

Amazon orders 20 Volvo heavy-duty electric trucks

Volvo Trucks will deliver 20 heavy-duty electric trucks to Amazon in Germany by the end of the year. The Volvo FH Electric are expected to drive more than one million…

Construction

Vinci to build Germany’s first LNG terminal

Vinci has announced the signature of an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract to build Germany’s first regasification terminal. It will have a production capacity of 10 billion m3 of…

Heavy lifting

Megalift arrange various shipments for Australian tunnelling project

Megalift has recently arranged series of shipments to Australia due to their client embarking on a government-issued tunneling project. The exports came from a variety of locations including Malaysia, Singapore…

Construction

Kobelco: Out of ordinary G-Series

Developed from real jobsite experiences and designed for excelling worldwide in performance and reliability in the most extreme working conditions, Kobelco Cranes at this year’s Bauma will stand out of…

Heavy lift

Enerpac Cube Jacks help to install Oldenburg railway bridge

Lifting and heavy transport specialist, Schares, relied on Enerpac for the installation of a double-track railway bridge in suburban Oldenburg, Germany. SCJ-100 Cube Jacks were used to raise and lower…

Construction

Five Liebherr tower cranes for Otto Wulff

Construction company Otto Wulff is extending its fleet with five new Liebherr EC-B tower cranes. The third-generation family company from northern Germany has placed orders for a 220 EC-B 12, two 220 EC-B 10s…

Deliveries

Last bodywork sold by Joost van Eck delivered

Last week, a rigid body was delivered to the German company Georgi Transporte at Van Eck Trailers in Beesd, which was sold by Joost van Eck in the autumn of…

Cranes

Gräber extends Liebherr fleet

Work platform, forklift and crane rental company Gräber took delivery of two new mobile cranes at the Liebherr plant in Ehingen at the beginning of May. Just a few weeks…

Construction

Liebherr LTC 1050-3.1: Full performance in electric mode

With the aim to meet the needs of customers and the demand for greener equipment, Liebherr is working on alternative drive units, which are tailored to the application and location…

Europe

DB Schenker helps Ukraine

DB Schenker has started operations of Rail Bridge with relief goods for Ukraine. First container train set off on Friday night from Seddin, Germany via Krakow in the direction of…

Heavy transport

Streetcars transport with Goldhofer

UTM Universal Transport GmbH uses a rail vehicle solution with Goldhofer vehicles to gradually transport 30 new streetcars for Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, the municipal transport company of the city of…

All Terrain Cranes

New AC 2.040-1: first member of the Tadano AC family

Tadano has lunched the new AC 2.040-1, the first all terrain crane to be developed jointly by Tadano’s Lauf and Zweibrücken locations in Germany.“That’s why this market launch is really…

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.…

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