Search Results: 'Cranes Asia'

Looking foward...
22 July, 2022
With summer having well and truly arrived here in the UK, it is with a feeling of optimism that I write this month's Comment. It's not just the sunshine that has returned; international travel is back on the agenda, too. With forthcoming Terex and Liebherr trips, plus Bauma 2022 tickets now booked, I'm looking forward to getting away from a desk and meeting people face-to-face again.

Closing the global skills gap
22 January, 2015
Over the last year, we've seen complaints from crane owners around the world about a shortage of skilled operators. In some ways, this is one of those good problems: it's a sign that, globally, the crane industry recognises the importance of qualifed operators and rigging crew to safe and efficient lifting.

Competing to qualify
15 October, 2012
Around the world, certification and qualification groups offer different approaches to training. Within their home markets, and internationally, these different approaches are coming into competition.

Coming back to Singapore
11 July, 2012
For the past nine months I've been working on putting together a speaker programme for our regional conference, Cranes Asia, in Singapore.

Being, nothingness and trade shows
28 March, 2012
Paris is a city that offers a vast range of different attractions, romance and adventure, fine food and wine, great art and architecture. Another of its attractions is as the birthplace of the modern intellectual, the place where people like Sartre and Camus, Baudrillard and Foucault, asked essential questions about humanity's place in the world,; how do we understand the world around us? How do we justify our actions? Why are we here?