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Italian crane manufacturer Fassi had two of its hydraulic loading cranes pushed to the limits as they carried out work installing the first Chinese telescope in Antarctica

Cargotec has received a repeat order for four Kalmar ship-to-shore cranes from the French Bolloré group, through its wholly-owned Unicaf subsidiary. The deal follows an order received in 2011, which at the time represented Cargotec's first ever

German rental firm R. Kölch & Sohn pushed its Tadano Faun ATF 220G-5 all terrain crane to its maximum for a recent air conditioning installation in Nürnberg

A 2,000 tonne capacity XCMG crawler crane and 750 tonne capacity Liebherr crawler crane worked together to install a 740 tonne oil first reactor at the Sinochem Quanzhou Huian refinery construction project in China in August

Poland's Viatron is keeping its Grove GTK1100 busy working on the country's growing number of wind energy plants. The company, which specializes in wind turbine installation, acquired the Grove GTK1100 in 2011 and since then has had the unit working round the clock

China-based Penglai Jutal Offshore Engineering Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (pJOE) relied on a pair of Terex crawler cranes to lift a 330 tonne ring gear onto a freighter on behalf of Cosco shipyard

Germany-based Breuer & Wasel used three of its Liebherr all terrain cranes to replace a 140 tonne bucket on a brown coal excavator at the Hambach open-cast mine, Germany

Sarens Australia has secured AU$ 65 million (US$ 69 million) in crane and specialized transport contracts in the country's multi-billion dollar LNG and mining industry development

A 1,350 tonne Weldex Liebherr LR 11350-P1800, equipped with the manufacturer's new parallel boom, has lifted the 340 tonne nacelle of a 6 megawatt wind turbine

US contractor Miron Construction has its Manitowoc 14000 and Manitowoc 11000 crawler cranes working with a team of Grove all terrains and rough terrains on the US$ 143 million upgrade of the Lambeau Field sports stadium, the home of the Green Bay Packers football team

Three Terex cranes were called in to help repair the Eggner's Ferry Bridge that crosses the Tennessee River near Aurora, Kentucky, after a 322 foot (98.1 metre) span of the 3,495 foot-long (1,065.3 m) bridge was destroyed by a cargo ship in January

Norway's AF Group (AFG) will supply six wireline cranes to Statoil ASA in a contract worth more than NOK 60 million (US$ 9.8 million)

Crane service provider Scholpp Kran & Transport brought in Terex AC 200 and AC 300 all terrain cranes for a challenging lift on the Main river in Germany

Heavy lift and shipping specialist Jumbo has moved components of what is claimed as the world's largest Goliath type gantry crane from South Korea and Finland to Brazil for use in a shipyard

UK-based GGR Group supplied a Unic URW-547 mini spider crane to assist in the installation of a new World War II stone memorial at Beachy Head, Eastbourne

International heavy lift and transportation specialist ALE has started work on one of the world's largest natural gas projects using a large gantry system to rotate major structures

Tianjin Launch Specific Hoisting Equipment Engineering Co. Ltd in China used a pair of Terex crawler cranes to erect Asia's largest radio telescope

Indian construction and mechanical engineering company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chose a pair of Terex flat top tower cranes for an airport expansion project in Mumbai

International heavy lift and transport specialist Mammoet brought together a wide range of its capabilities, including heavy lifting with a pair of 1,350 tonne capacity crawler cranes, to unload a series of barges weighing more than 1,400 tonnes in the Netherlands. Sander Splinter, Mammoet Europe managing director, explained the project to Alex Dahm