The Crane Industry Council of Australia (CICA), has formally launched its operator training and certification initiative CrewSafe.

The initiative is a collaborative effort with crane owners, equipment manufacturers and trainers both in Australia and overseas, to increase onsite safety by introducing recorded machine specific assessmen..

The new crawler is the 800 tonne capacity LR 1800-1.0. The crane is three metres wide and has a maximum transport weight of 45 tonnes once its tracks have been removed. In standard configuration the crane has an 84 metre luffing jib and an 84 metre boom, which comprises three lattice sections that can be telescoped for transport. See the all ter..

Heavy lift and transport company Crane Norway Group has ordered 11 Demag cranes ranging from 100 to 650 tonnes.

The cranes include a 100 tonne four axle AC 100-4L, three 130 tonne five axle AC 130-5s, two 160 tonne five axle AC 160-5s, and four 250 ton five axle AC 250-5 All Terrain cranes, plus a 650 tonne CC 3800-1 crawler cran..

Hong Kong based crane rental company Set Win Group has taken delivery of the first 450 tonne, eight axle Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 All Terrain crane to arrive in Asia. The company also has a 500 tonne eight axle LTM 1500-8.1 Liebherr All Terrain crane on order, for delivery later this summer. 

The handover ceremony to Set Win managin..

Users of Liebherr LTM 1220 All-Terrain cranes will no longer be able to purchase this model from the manufacturer. Learning of the discontinuation of this long-sought after and best in class crane, Bigge decided to purchase the last four of these outstanding two engine, 60-meter, Tier-4 final cranes. The delive..