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Oilfield services company 5J Trucking, used its two new Sany America crawler cranes to lift a 90,000 pound (41 tonne) oil derrick.

In response to a growing need for efficient and cost effective lifting solutions Shuttlelift launched a new series of double-beam mobile gantry cranes.

The Utsunomiya District Court sentenced a 26-year-old man with epilepsy to the maximum term of seven years in prison Monday for killing six children in a mobile crane accident last April in Tochigi Prefecture, even though his condition played a factor in the accident.

A incident with a loader crane at Ipswich docks on Friday night has left one man dead and another seriously injured.

A loader crane went over in the small town of Rælingen, to the east of Oslo, Norway last week. The cause? – poor outrigger set up.

Handling state-of-the-art wind turbine components is a major challenge for crane service companies, turbine OEMs and transport specialists alike.

Certified Boom Repair Service Inc., Tampa, Fla., will restore a 2011 Link-Belt HTC-8675 truck crane that was wrecked last summer while being delivered from the factory to the end-user. The trailer it was being hauled on got stuck on railroad tracks and an oncoming train struck the driver’s side of the crane.

A lattice crane boom collapsed yesterday on a job in Garrett Indiana after its load suddenly freed after it hung up.

A shocking road accident was caught on camera yesterday in Rotterdam, a crane came out of a side street at speed, hitting a car and taking it around a hundred metres before coming to a stop.