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Heavy lift engineers Mustafa Al Abdulmohsin and Hussain Al Nassir, part of oil and gas company Saudi Aramco’s Heavy Lift Engineering Group, a division of its Transportation and Equipment Services...
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Electrifying changes
Fossil-sourced diesel is no longer welcome at the party. It is noisy and polluting, and diesel-powered lifting is increasingly being banned from city centres. Julian Champkin finds that batteries may be the power of the future – and indeed of the present. It is here already...
Towering up
Tower cranes are the standard on ob sites worldwide. Juian Champkin looks at the current crop.
All aboard
Italian heavy lift and transportation specialist Fagioli successfully relocated two massive ZPMC Ship to Shore container cranes from Malta to France.
Fuel for thought
Reinder de Haan, global segment lead for transport and logistics at Mammoet, speaks to Cranes Today about the company’s work in the oil and gas sector.
Loads of potential
Despite a backdrop of uncertainty positive financial results abound prompting some loader crane manufacturers to expand to capitalise on demand. Cranes Today reports.
Ports Cranes Ease Crisis
The world’s supply chain is buckling under pandemic and war. Julian Champkin looks at how the ports of the world are trying to ease the strains.
Dynamic Duo
Tandem lift for Vernazza Autogru’s Demag lattice boom crawlers.
Home sweet home
Houses are needed everywhere. All kinds of cranes can help build them. Julian Champkin reports.
Logical progression
Stuart Anderson charts Liebherr’s logical development of large crawler cranes.
Weighty Matters
What used to be 'ultra-heavy' is today’s 'mid-range'; what is out of the question today might be possible next year. Gavin Kerr, global cranes director at Mammoet speaks to Julian Champkin about developments in the world of heavy lifting.
A safe haven
This month’s Job of the Month goes to the relocation of a 53 tonne Newton Chambers Koehring (NCK) crane owned by UK port, ABP Ipswich. The port commissioned marine contractor Red7Marine to relocate the crane from West Bank Quay, across the River Orwell, to Cliff Quay utilising its Haven Seajack 4 jack-up barge.
Green revolution
Lifting is overwhelmingly powered by fossil-fuel diesel. How can it become sustainable? Julian Champkin finds encouraging progress towards a carbon-neutral industry.
