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18 December, 2018
Our annual Fleet File survey

Rigging with the bulls
18 December, 2018
Bull rigging is easy to recognise but hard to define as a way of moving a load. Perhaps that is why there is a growing shortage of skilled bull riggers. Julian Champkin tries to pin down the elusive subject.

Heavy hydraulics
18 December, 2018
In the second of two articles, Stuart Anderson, president of Chortsey Barr, assesses current demand for heavy duty crawler cranes, and looks at the important innovations made by Japanese manufacturers.

Wheels in motion
18 December, 2018
Mobile crane orders in Australia skyrocketed this year. Combining information from a series of interviews with material from CICA’s annual conference sessions, Sotiris Kanaris looks at the state of the market for crane suppliers and hirers.

A tower and mobile in tandem
18 December, 2018
Wilbert’s Swiss crane rental partner Thomas Kaufmann Turmkrane AG supplied a WT 650 e.tronic to work in tandem with a mobile crane to remove an old railway bridge in Rossinière

Welex - On firm ground
14 December, 2018
Welex, established in the 1920s, takes its name from the name of the owner at the time, Westerhout, and the place where the company is situated, Lexmond. It started selling railway sleepers and dragline mats, and now trades crane mats internationally.

Lampson - Three generations of giants
14 December, 2018
Lampson International is a third generation family owned and operated heavy lift and heavy haul construction corporation. Started in 1946 by Neil and Billie Jane Lampson, this once small crane and drayage company grew to be one of the largest and most well respected heavy lift companies in the world. Kate Lampson explains the history of the company, and its current offering.

NFT - Specialised in tower cranes
14 December, 2018
Award winning and resilient to economic changes, NFT has come a long way since its establishment in the 1980s. Starting out as the first supplier of tower cranes in the GCC region, it has now become Potain’s number one dealer in the world and the world’s number one tower crane supplier in terms of lifting capacity.

Fagioli - Integrated service
14 December, 2018
Fagioli Group’s wide range of activities can be summarised by its acronym, FIS – Fagioli Integrated Service.

Integrated Logistics - Leading across the Middle East
14 December, 2018
Integrated Logistics, established in Kuwait in the year 2005, offers a total logistic solution for lifting and haulage for heavy or oversized cargoes, and rental and leasing of cranes. The company summarises its offering.

Sarilar - Beyond transport
14 December, 2018
Turkish company Sarilar has its roots in transporting heavy loads but now it is a leader not only in transport, but in heavy lifting and assembling too.

Mammoet - Time is money
14 December, 2018
Mammoet is a global market leader in engineered heavy lifting and transport. However, it says the biggest thing it moves is time because their services help improve efficiency of construction and maintenance projects.

Sarens team picks up pipe
13 November, 2018
Sarens used 11 mobile cranes to lift and place a 274m gas pipe in Merksem, Belgium.

PTC 200 DS in Brazil
13 November, 2018
Mammoet has successfully completed the process of weighing, transporting and lifting the modules of the P-76 FPSO platform for the Technip-Techint consortium at the Techint Offshore Unit in Pontal do Paraná, Brazil.

Setting sail in Venice
13 November, 2018
Italian heavy transport and lifting company Fagioli used Cometto vehicles to transport a number of reactors in Italy earlier this year.

Mega Jack raises 13,000t topside
13 November, 2018
Heavylift specialist ALE has used its Mega Jack system to raise a 13,000t topside 14m in Mexico.

Truly heavy
13 November, 2018
In the first of two articles, Stuart Anderson, president of Chortsey Barr, looks at the development of heavy duty crawlers. In part two, next month, he looks in more detail at the Japanese industry, and a variety of attachments and applications for these machines

States of happiness
13 November, 2018
The crane market in North America faces steel tariffs and mid-term election uncertainties. Nevertheless, Julian Champkin finds optimism, even in hard-hit areas.

Tube banks on overhead crane
13 November, 2018
A major upgrade to one of the world’s oldest deep underground railways, at Bank in London, relies on a single overhead crane nestled in a side street. Positioning the crane, and the logistics of its operation, posed a considerable challenge. Will North reports from the site, and sees how the crane contributes to work below ground.

Gulf cranes multiply
08 October, 2018
Construction activity is strong across the Middle East, Sotiris Kanaris looks at the crane market and interesting projects in the region.