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A behemoth on the Black Sea
27 December, 2012
Sarens used Cavotec radio remote controls to help guide two enormous fuel reactors from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas to the Lukoil Neftochim oil refinery.

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26 December, 2012

LR 13000 ready to work
24 December, 2012
Mammoet has assembled the world's largest production crane, the 3,000t Liebherr LR 13000, at BP's Whiting refinery in Indiana, USA.

Previously in Cranes Today...
24 December, 2012
In this new regular feature, we discover what the industry was talking about this month in past decades, as we turn back the pages of the oldest magazine of the lifting sector.

Liebherr UK rebrands training services
13 December, 2012
The fully accredited CPCS training school at Liebherr’s UK headquarters is being rebranded as Liebherr Training Services, the company said late last week. Liebherr stated that is to reflect its expanded curriculum.

All terrain does plant work
22 November, 2012
Liebherr showed off a new Liebherr 45t LTC 1045-3.1 compact all terrain crane, which was assembling a new gear cutting unit at its slewing bearing production plant, in October.

Titan-size ATs
22 November, 2012
New Zealand-based Titan Cranes bought four cranes including an Liebherr 350t LTM 1350-6.1 all-terrain mobile crane this year, and says customers want larger cranes.

In the long haul
16 November, 2012
Cristina Brooks finds out how the size of crane components can impact on transport costs. At the top end of the market, dealers complain, customers around the world can pay an extra $20,000 to transport oversize parts.

Bauma China 2012
15 November, 2012
New cranes are on the agenda for Bauma China, the International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery in Shanghai this month. Attractions will include the unveiling of new truck cranes from Manitowoc, as well as a redesign of the crawler range from FuWa.

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15 November, 2012

Al Faris expands in Saudi Arabia
07 November, 2012
Al Faris Equipment Rentals, based in United Arab Emirates, has taken delivery of at least 60 Liebherr mobile cranes at its new Saudi Arabian depot and workshop.

Weldex’s crawler sinks tunneling machine
31 October, 2012
Scottish firm Weldex used a 1,350t Liebherr crawler to lower the royally-named Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ‘Elizabeth’ into a shaft in East London.

After the earthquake
19 October, 2012
In the first of a two part series on natural disasters, Stuart Anderson looks at the work the New Zealand crane industry has done in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake.

Super cranes pile on the pressure
18 October, 2012
Joe Collins, heavy lift manager for Becht Engineering, explains that ground stability systems are increasingly in demand for today’s super crawlers, and should be used for some lighter models too.

Liebherr client christens CAL
17 October, 2012
Ship developer and ship manager HGO InfraSea Solutions, with its new vessel, ‘Innovation’, will be the first to see the new Liebherr CAL (Crane-around-the-leg) 64000-1500 Litronic offshore crane in action.

Job map: CICA award winners
15 October, 2012

Schmidbauer’s tandem jacket lift
10 October, 2012
Heavy load specialist Schmidbauer engineered a tandem jacket lift using two 750t Liebherr crawler cranes at an offshore terminal in Bremerhaven, Germany.

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17 September, 2012

Al Faris invests in oil and gas
13 September, 2012
UAE lifting firm Al Faris announced it would purchase USD$50m (€40m) worth of cranes in 2013, enlarging its specialised energy rental fleet.

Lifting closer
11 September, 2012
Helping build the world’s largest wire rope-making closer machine, Mammoet unloaded the 65t capstan from transport, rotated it 90° and put it back on the transport in position for installation.