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?The kangaroo of the crane world??
08 December, 2008
Australian pick and carry cranes are like the continent's well-known marsupials: they are rather funny-looking, but they are good at what they do and wholly adapted to their environment. Greg Keane reviews the history and the future of these multi-tasking articulated cranes

Crane rental in China
08 December, 2008
Although most cranes are still bought by end users, an increasing proportion are being bought by crane rental companies from domestic players, and by joint ventures funded by international firms keen to get in on the action, reports Will Dalrymple

In our fleet: Irga Group, Brazil
08 December, 2008
Lupércio Torres Neto, president of Irga Group, talks to Cranes Today about his company and its fleet

ITC makes Olympic record
08 December, 2008
For contractors ITC Construction Group and MetroCan Construction, a project to build 12 apartment blocks for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics was a race against the clock. The project also saw Canada's first tower crane anticollision system, reports Will Dalrymple

K10000 rises again
08 December, 2008
The contender for the world's largest tower crane, Krøll's K10000, has been erected for a plant upgrade at Canada tar sands firm Syncrude. Will Dalrymple reports

Remote release
08 December, 2008
New remote-control hooks help workers get out from underneath loads and can also improve the efficiency of jobs that require a lot of hooking and releasing, reports Will Dalrymple

Vacuum power
08 December, 2008
Vacuum lifters find applications across the construction industry. For cladding and glazing installation, they are a vital tool. Will North reports.

Tall ship cranes
08 December, 2008
Potain and Liebherr have both recently supplied giant tower cranes to shipyards.

Crane Industry Council of Australia lifts of the year
06 November, 2008
There were two winners, and two runners-up, in CICA's annual crane jobs. We present all four.

Building giants
06 November, 2008
Construction of the first units of Liebherr’s giant MTC 78000 ship crane is progressing well, as guests of the company saw on a tour of its Rostock, Germany, facility. The 78,000tm crane will lift 1,600t to 35m, and 600t at its 70m maximum reach.

Boom trucks spread their wings
06 November, 2008
Boom trucks are the sturdy, reliable, workhorse of the US crane industry. Now, manufacturers are seeing new opportunities for the cranes, both by expanding their use domestically, and by finding new markets for export. Will North spoke to three companies who are doing both.

C-DAC finally arrives
06 November, 2008
More than six years after the US crane industry prompted the country’s health and safety agency, OSHA, into revising standards that had been mostly the same since 1968, and four years after a group of experts agreed a draft, OSHA has finally published the proposed rule in the Federal Register, and formally started a public consultation process that will run until 8 December 2008. Will North and Will Dalrymple report.

Fagioli scales it up
06 November, 2008
It all looks fairly ordinary until you see how tiny the cars and people are. Fagioli was intimately involved in one of the biggest alternative lifting projects ever, on a giant offshore regasification terminal assembled in huge modules in Spain. Will Dalrymple reports

RI's jacking trolley
17 October, 2008
Rigging International used a custom-built jacking trolley on its vertical pole system to replace a reactor vessel head, pressuriser and two steam generators at the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant for Omaha (Nebraska) Public Power for client Bechtel Power Corp. ???

What strand jacks stand on
17 October, 2008
The launch of two new modular towers demonstrate that these unglamorous steel structures are as important as the hoist or strand jacks that they support, reports Will Dalrymple.

Taking a load off
15 October, 2008
Knuckleboom cranes have been sold in the UK for years as 'loaders', but are now taking more of the work of standard mobile cranes. Standards are shifting in response to require that knuckleboom users plan jobs in the same way as for mobile cranes. Will Dalrymple reports.

Virtual rigging
15 October, 2008
Riggers can use rigging calculators and 3D software to plan particular lifts. Each type has its advantages and disadvantages, reports Will Dalrymple.

Emmert delivers generator by rail
14 October, 2008
US special transport firm Emmert International transported a 413 US ton generator almost a thousand miles from Houston, Texas, to the Comanche 3 power station in Pueblo, Colorado in a job whose planning ultimately took two years to complete.

All in a night's work
14 October, 2008
Fagioli used SPMTs to install a motorway bridge in a single night??. Mike Clark reports.

TNT Crane and Rigging
13 October, 2008
TNT Crane and Rigging has been hiring cranes in Texas for 25 years. Co-founder Randy Dobbs reviews the company's history, and new investor Mike Appling describes future plans.