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Mining company Boliden has purchased a 74 tonnes electrified Scania truck for heavy transport. With delivery scheduled for spring 2022, the electrified truck is a part of the company’s aim to decrease its CO2-emissions with 40 percent by 2030. The electrified truck, with a total weight of 74 tonnes including load and trailer, will be …
Maritime electrification company Echandia opens branch in Norway
Swedish Echandia expands in the Norwegian market through the appointment of industry veteran Roy Storeng to lead the business development in Norway. Echandia is one of the leading developers of zero-emission energy solutions for heavy-duty maritime electrification with customers in Europe, Asia, and Oceania, including Cochin Shipyards, building the world's largest fleet of electric ferries …
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Kalmar’s new electric reachstacker to be field tested by CargoNet in Norway
Kalmar has signed a one-year agreement with Norwegian rail operator CargoNet covering the field-testing of a Kalmar Electric Reachstacker. CargoNet is Norway’s rail-freight operator, focused on rail-based intermodal services within Norway and between Norway and Sweden. The company, which is 100% owned by Norwegian State Railways (Vy, formerly NSB), is headquartered in Oslo and employs …
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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 and free-turning device for its current haulage contract in Sweden. Together with the recently acquired »BLADES« combinations, this ensures that rapid progress can be made …
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Megalift handles gas turbine transport
Megalift has recently handled the shipping of a 86tn gas turbine from Sweden to Malaysia. The SGT700 gas turbine, with dimensions: 13.54 x 5.34 x 4.01m, was shipped from the Siemens site in Norrkoping, Sweden to Port Klang in Malaysia by RORO vessel. It was imported to Malaysia for the set-up of a cogeneration plant …
Freja handles transport of railway machines
Freja Transport & Logistics recently handled two project transports involving railway machines. In the first, the locomotive, which was over 40m long and 4m high, was transported from Denmark to Finland for refurbishment and afterwards, returned to Denmark. In the second, the transport of a similar machine was made from Denmark to Sweden and back …
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Boosting sustainability by reusing lifting equipment
Saipem, a service provider in the oil and gas industry, has been commissioned with an offshore project in the Baltic Sea. The project involves using ships to lay an underwater gas pipeline of around 275 kilometres in length. Hendrik Veder Group is helping Saipem to refurbish lifting equipment that it already owns, so that it …
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Liebherr mobile harbour cranes load first containers of the New Silk Road
After a 10,000 km journey from the Chinese city Xi’an, the first containers of the New Silk Road have been loaded in the port of Rostock. They were transferred from ship to rail by EUROPORTS Germany using their recently acquired Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour cranes. The terminal operator plans to expand Rostock into a …
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SMIE’s anti-collision system operates in Sweden
The Swedish construction company Skanska in a joint venture with Danska MTH has been commissioned to build the Hisingbron Bridge in central Gothenburg. Working within a proximity to residential areas, roads and public transport systems, the company has equipped two Liebherr 280EC-H tower cranes with the ProSITE anti-collision system, launched by SMIE in 2016. Thanks …
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Two new Demag all terrain cranes to Windhoist UK
Windhoist UK, one of the world’s leading wind turbine erection company put into service two brand new Demag AC 220-5 all terrain cranes. The two machines were delivered from the plant in Zweibrücken to a large site in Sweden, where the company is currently erecting a wind farm. The total order consists of four machines …
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