by Crane Market | Aug 24, 2018 | Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News, Ports & Terminals
Lithuania’s Klaipedos Smelte has placed an order for 12 cranes, which includes ten rubber-tired gantry (RTG) cranes and two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, with Konecranes. The cranes will be installed at Klaipedos Smelte’s facility at the Port of Klaipeda in Lithuania....
by Crane Market | Aug 23, 2018 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News
Cropac Equipment is expanding its territory to include all of Eastern Canada and expanding its crane roster with numerous new Terex models. Already one of the largest distributors of Terex and Demag cranes in Canada, Cropac Equipment recently added more than 35 new...
by Crane Market | Aug 22, 2018 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News, Manufacturer News
Teamwork in Liebherr’s hometown – in June two Liebherr All Terrain mobile cranes replaced a 20-year-old debarking drum at the Sappi paper factory in Ehingen. This is also the location of the Liebherr manufacturing plant for mobile and crawler cranes. An LTM...
by Crane Market | Aug 21, 2018 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Workforce News
The Seattle area’s construction frenzy slowed Tuesday as crane operators and some other workers walked off the job after rejecting a new union contract. Western Washington members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 302 started the strike at...
by Crane Market | Aug 21, 2018 | Crane & Lifting News, Ports & Terminals
The nation’s port authorities will ask the Trump administration to exempt any purchases of Chinese-built cranes used in port operations from tariffs that have been threatened by the Trump administration. In testimony scheduled to be given on Friday before the...