July 30 - In the United States, the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association has announced details of its forthcoming crane and rigging workshop.
The three-day event takes place at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from September 17-19 and is targeted at crane operators, sales personnel and safety directors.
Sessions include developing a safety culture, movement restrictions on mobile cranes and alternative lifting methods.
Visit www.scranet.org/workshop to register.
Transport engineering and heavy lift specialist Mammoet is supporting Canada’s Bruce Power with its major component replacement (MCR) projects.
Liebherr’s factory in Nenzing, Austria, has been filling all its new machines with hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel during assembly, with CO2 neutrality the driving factor for the change.
Schwerlast Weise has taken delivery of a new Liebherr LTM 1300-6.3 mobile crane.
USA-based transport engineering specialist Berard has further strengthened heavy transport capabilities with the recent delivery of 12 additional axle lines of Scheuerle SPMTs
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.
