Protea, a global manufacturer of offshore handling equipment, will launch two types of heavy lift cranes at Nor-Shipping 2015 in Oslo, June 2-5. Tomasz Paszkiewicz, Protea’s CEO, said, “The target of ...

In September Liebherr delivered the second heavy lift offshore crane type MTC 78000 from its manufacturing plant in Rostock. The MTC 78000 is one of the biggest offshore slewing cranes worldwide, with ...

With major drilling and production facilities located offshore, the oil and gas industry must rely on an efficient and safe way to install this equipment. Through experience and innovation, the ...

The heavy-lifting crane that has been sitting in the Port of Fernandina since early July is expected to make its way to the St. Simons Sound as early as Tuesday. Partly submerged and waiting to be ...

"This is like a small dream in the crane world," says Ingo Noeske, global production director for Manitowoc's crawler line. "You can lift the load and not take care of your counterweight." The VPC-MAX ...

The SSCV Sleipnir is the world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel, equipped with two revolving cranes capable of lifting a combined 20,000 tonnes—the most powerful pair ever built. Constructed by ...

Two miles off the coast of southwest England, a pair of cranes are getting ready to lift a 5,000-ton chunk of civil engineering from a barge and lower it onto the seabed for the Hinkley Point C ...

This week of Crane and Transport Briefings (CTB) started off by looking at what’s next in the race for ever larger wind turbines, especially in the offshore sector. With blades as long as football ...

A 14,000 tonne capacity land-based crane is planned for construction by a division of China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec). Yes, you read that correctly as fourteen thousand tonnes. If you think ...