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More than 200 people recently attended an open house event organized by Pensacola-based Deep South Crane Rentals, Inc. (DSC) to mark the arrival of the company’s new 600 ton Terex® AC 500-2 All Terrain Crane.

VANCOUVER — Wind power is a late arrival to the British Columbia electricity grid. But it’s catching up and is eventually expected to surpass run of river hydro power as the largest source of private-sector generation in B.C.

Bath Iron Works, ME.-based company and a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation has been building warships for the U.S. Navy for 128 years. This past December, Bath Iron Works broke its own heaviest lift record using two Manitowoc 16000 crawler cranes to pick nearly 1,000 USt – more than double the weight previously lifted by the shipyard.

The cranes, named the GMK4100S, were built at the request of German rental company Dornseiff, based in Burbach, to meet the demand to perform heavy lifts indoors.

Membrey Transport and Crane Hire played a major role in the successful relocation of a rare Rothschild giraffe from the Melbourne Zoo in Victoria to the Mogo Zoo on the southern coast of New South Wales, 800 kilometers away.

German truck mounted lift manufacturer Ruthmann has released a photo of its 70 metre plus T7xx truck mounted lift, scheduled to be unveiled at Bauma. So far its base frame,…

Grup TCB and Liebherr Container Cranes have developed a double boom ship to shore (STS) container crane to replace the use of mobile harbour cranes at the jetty pier in…

On Monday this week a relatively simple lift went expensively wrong, thanks to a contractor using a smaller crane than the job demanded.

Canada’s crane sector has weathered the economic downturn so well that the coming year could see a continued shortage of skilled operators, industry insiders say.

An M2480D Favco tower crane from Marr Contracting in Australia has been used to lift what is likely to be the highest and heaviest load into a fully functional CBD site, writes Brent Stacey.