August 25 - Maxim Crane Works is employing a fleet of Manitowoc crawler cranes as part of the construction of the new Miami Dolphins football stadium in the USA.
Initially four 600-tonne capacity Manitowoc 18000 crawlers, each equipped with a MAX-ER attachment, were put to work on the construction project, before Maxim added a 700-tonne capacity MLC650 crawler crane to the site.
The heaviest load lifted at the stadium weighed in at over 700 tonnes.
Antonov Airlines and First Class Freight (FCF) transported oversized equipment, including an Azipod thruster, from Hong Kong to Houston, USA.
Project freight forwarder Fracht Group has transported seven transformers, weighing 340 tons (308.4 tonnes) each, from İzmir, Türkiye, to Medicine Bow in Wyoming, USA.
At the end of September, Bergé Maritime received a Liebherr LHM 550 crane as part of a plan to upgrade the port of Tarragona, Spain.
Mammoet’s SK6000 has passed its test programme after Lloyd’s Register certified the crane’s safe operation to its specification.
ESEASA, a Mexican crane and heavy haulage company, has taken delivery of a new Liebherr LR 1700-1.0W in what is the first crane of this type in Latin America.
Guidance on the safe operation of cranes near power lines has been published by the International Crane Stakeholders Assembly (ICSA), the organisation that brings together global crane manufacturers and users, including the European association of road transport and mobile cranes (ESTA).
