Work started last week to dismantle the launching gantry dubbed ‘Big Blue’ on the Newmarket Viaduct Replacement Project, the New Zealand Transport Agency has announced. It will take four weeks to […]
Accomplished hoist operators can move a load without causing it to sway. But it is a skill acquired only with training and experience. Julian Champkin finds that anti-sway systems do even more than th[…]
Scottish structural steel fabrication and erection contractor, J & D Pierce, has awarded the contract to supply six cranes for its Glengarnock facility in Ayrshire, Scotland to Konecranes UK. The […]
A Chinese drilling rig exporter has begun construction of a massive mobile gantry crane, which it claims will have the largest lifting capacity of any in the world at 22,000t. In an announcement last […]
Not every load can be hung from a hook – frequently, some kind of special attachment is needed. Julian Champkin reports. A crane or hoist with a hook on the end seems a clear and simple solution to […]
Port workers at the UK’s Port of Felixstowe set a new record for the speed of loading and unloading a ship, with the port claiming that a container was handled almost every minute. The port set […]
Liftket Hoffmann GmbH, the German supplier of electric chain hoists and control systems, has acquired Action Lift, an exclusive distributor of Liftket and Chainmaster products in France and Spain with[…]
A 37-year old man was crushed to death in a workshop in North Rockhampton, Australia when a steel beam on an overhead crane left its rails and fell. Other employees in the building at the time were le[…]
Handling operations at Belawan International Container Terminal at the port of Belawan, Indonesia have received a boost with the arrival of the remaining five cranes of a 10 rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) […]
The paper and card manufacturing industry is on the up, and innovations in handling, logistics and maintenance are helping the sector to meet demand. Daniel Searle reports. In the age of email, it mig[…]
Two new Panamax class ship-to-shore container quay cranes along with eight rubber-tyred gantry cranes have been commissioned at Malaysia’s government-owned Bintulu Port to expand its container h[…]
DP World – a global ports and terminals, marine services, logistics and technology company – is to accelerate its adoption of renewable energy at the Port of Santos, Brazil’s multipurpose privat[…]
