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The World Crane and Transport Summit 2013 opened on 29 October to an international audience in Amsterdam, Netherlands. More than 250 industry professionals registered for the event at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in central Amsterdam.

A tower crane has collapsed on to the roof of the Government’s cabinet office in Whitehall, London, following hurricane force winds throughout the southern half of the UK.

The construction industry needs to do more to tackle corruption according to a new report from Grant Thornton. The consultant estimates that fraud could cost the industry between 5% and 10% of revenues, or as much as US$ 860 billion per year.

For the second year in a row, the Florida Crane Owners’ Council Inc. has awarded two full crane operator certification scholarships to member crane company operators.

Craneblogger 2013 Crane Photo Contest Voting Begins! Voting for all photo submissions of the 4th Annual Great Crane Photo Contest begins today and ends October 30th! Vote for photos from all the three categories…

The crawler crane that slipped off a barge in South Whidbey Harbour, in Washington state last week, has been recovered.

Albert Marine Construction is assisting in the repbuilding effort post Hurricane Sandy and has used an 85 USt (80 t) Manitowoc 8500-1 crawler crane for its part.

A tower crane collapsed in the early hours of yesterday morning on a construction site in Xi’an the capital of north west China’s Shaanxi Province killing four people and injuring four others.

Manitowoc signed a five year, strategic agreement with Orlaco, to provide and develop aftermarket camera systems for Manitowoc cranes, including Potain tower cranes, Grove mobile cranes, National Crane boom trucks and Manitowoc crawler cranes.

Wind and weather played a role in last week’s Regional Qualifying Rodeo, hosted by Empire Crane in Syracuse, N.Y., as area crane operators competed for a spot in the MCM & CIC Crane Operator Rodeo National Championship