MyCrane facilitates rental of 400 tonne Sany crane in India

Design of Amaravati was completed by Foster+Partners (Photo: Foster+Partners)

In 2014, a process of bifurcation saw the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh split into two separate states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

The process saw the city of Hyderabad designated as common capital of the two states for a period of 10 years, but with that deal having expired the government of Andhra Pradesh is moving ahead with construction of a new, greenfield capital named Amaravati.

This includes the new Amaravati Government Complex, a development which (amongst other buildings) will comprise five high-rise towers intended to be the centrepiece of the new city.

MyCrane, described as the first global platform for crane rental and purchase, facilitated the rental of a 400 tonne Sany SCC4000E crawler crane to work on the construction site. The crane will be operated by Bheemaa Infra Solutions, a structural engineering contractor working on the Amaravati Government Complex.

The six-month contract (ongoing) was wholly arranged on the MyCrane platform. This connected Bheemaa with verified fleet owners and operators able to meet the project’s technical and timeline requirements.

Bheemaa Infra Solutions required a crane with a minimum lifting capacity of 400 tonnes to support heavy lift operations on a high-rise structure, with immediate availability and full technical validation against project-specific lift plans and load charts.

Availability of such cranes in the India market is limited, as noted by Andrei Geikalo, MyCrane founder and CEO.

“A 400 tonne crawler crane is not a commodity rental – availability is tight, mobilisation is complex, and the technical requirements are demanding. But 400 tonnes is not our ceiling. We have already processed a 1,250 tonne crawler crane rental through the platform, and are now in active conversations around requirements that go well beyond even that – with enquiries for crawler cranes of up to 1,600 tonnes, for example.”

The Amaravati Government Complex, which will include the state’s legislature assembly, the high court complex and other administrative functions has a completion date of late 2028.