Speakers range from local experts, such as Dubai municipality safety engineer Ahmed Khalil Abdul Kareem, to Bahrain’s crane entrepreneur Sami Nass, to international experts such as Ludo Sarens, managing director of Belgian heavy lift giant Sarens, and Alex Mullins, general manager of Al Jaber Heavy Lift.
Subjects include local business opportunities and safety issues, and topics about all major types of construction cranes. Tower crane topics include risk assessment, standards, wire rope and anticollision systems. Mobile crane topics include buying used, EN 13000. Crawler crane topics include the differences between Japanese and Western designs, the limits of duty-cycle crawlers and the potential of mini-cranes. Rigging includes verbal signals, lift planning and rigging safety. Alternative lifting includes a product overview and major job report.
The detailed programme can be downloaded as a four-page 700kB PDF document from www.tinyurl.com/6u9a6j.
Middle East Cranes 2009’s event partner is Al Jaber Heavy Lift. The conference is sponsored by CCC, Manitowoc and Terex. Lunch sponsors are LSI and Wolffkran. The event also features a record number of exhibitors.
For more information, or for a booking form, go to www.middleeastcranes.com. A promotional rate is in effect until 10 February 2009.
