Three rail-mounted cranes manufactured by German manufacturer Kirow have been shipped from the Wallmann Terminal in Hamburg to a Chinese customer by project forwarder Kühne + Nagel onboard multipurpose vessel Rickmers Jakarta. The shipment is bound for Xingang, China, where it is scheduled to arrive in late November
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Sany will show four new crawler cranes, the SCC500E, SCC3000WE, SCC3000 and the SCC16000 at the 2010 Bauma China exhibition. Most noticeable will be the SCC16000, a 1600 tonne capacity heavy lift crawler. Features of the 25000 tonne-metre giant include a modular design and super lift system.
Liebherr has delivered its 50th mobile harbour crane in Russia since it started in 1996. Over the last 15 years Liebherr has delivered at least one example of every different type of the mobile harbour crane it produces. Covering every type of freight, from container handling to bulk operations, from heavy lifts to general cargo.
Knuckle booms and mobile cranes stand out at SAIE
The lack of any tower crane manufacturers at what was meant to be SAIE’s bi-annual tower crane year was a sign of the difficult economic conditions that still exist in Italy. Major manufacturers like Liebherr and Terex chose not to attend October’s annual exhibition held in Bologna, Italy either, although the latter was represented by a distributor
Italian crane maker Locatelli has delivered 20 Rough Terrain cranes for work on the widening of the Panama Canal. The cranes, 12 units of the company’s 30 tonne GRIL 8300T plus eight 60 tonne GRIL 8600T, have been sold to the “Grupo Unido por el Canal” consortium – an international joint venture between Impregilo of Italy, Sacyr Vallehermoso of Spain, Somague of Portugal, Jan de Nul of Belgium and Panama’s Constructora Urbana.
German based crane rental company Knaack-Krane has taken delivery of two new 600 tonne Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler cranes. The first unit arrived in March, while the second has now also been delivered. Both cranes have gone to work erecting wind turbines.
Terex has unveiled a three axle 50 to 60 tonne All Terrain crane on three axles at its open day in Zweibrücken. dubbed the Challenger 3160, it is a light weight 50 to 60 tonne crane with 50 metres of main boom. It will lift over 35 tonnes to four metres radius and yet can meet 10 tonne axle loads if its counterweight is removed.
Engineering company Monadelphous Group Ltd. became the first company in Australia to acquire a 750 tonne capacity Manitowoc 18000 with Max-Er attachment. The company’s engineering construction division has put it to work at a mining operation in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Manitowoc is showing the new 65 ton Grove RT765E-2 Rough Terrain crane, along with a range of other new products at a series of opens days – Crane Expo 2010- at its Shady Grove plant in Pennsylvania.
Caterpillar and Solimec have confirmed their plan to jointly develop a range of foundation cranes. The agreement follows the launch at Bauma of the 65 tonne Soilmec SC-65 lattice boomed crawler crane which was designed and built in collaboration with CAT.