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Space Shuttle Discovery, the most traveled shuttle in NASA’s fleet, ended its voyage at Washington Dulles International Airport this spring after more than 150 million miles of airtime.

Liebherr-Werk Nenzing has won Austria’s State prize for Environmental & Energy Technology, for its Pactronic hydraulic hybrid drive for cranes.

We have received some advance pictures of a new Liebherr 750 tonne All Terrain crane which will be unveiled next week – the LTM1750-9.1. We have very few details on the new crane, but Liebherr has confirmed that it will be launched next week, along with another new model at the company’s upcoming open days in Ehingen, Germany.

New Zealand’s McLeod Cranes has won a Department of Labour sponsored award for the best safety initiative by a small business.

The Liebherr MK 110 mobile construction crane assisted in the construction of a four-storied extension to a factory in the Tuas industrial area of Singapore.

It is taking one of the tallest cranes in Europe to put the finishing touches to the structure of Manchester Airport’s newly constructed £16 million air traffic control tower.

A man died on Wednesday while working on one of the Metro construction sites in Bangalore India, after a crane boom came down on him.

Perched above New York City’s skyline, two tower cranes are piecing together the new One World Trade Center, which just became the city’s tallest skyscraper. How do those cranes get up there?

Linden Comansa added the final model, the 21 LC 660 tower crane, to its LC2100 series. Designed under EN 14439 European standards, the crane is available in four versions, depending on the maximum load: 18, 24, 36 and 48 tonnes (39,680; 52,910; 79,360 and 105,820 pounds).

A reader in the USA has sent us a photograph of an old crane that perhaps one of you can identify?