July 18 - Crane Rental Corporation and Solar Erectors have completed work on a six-level parking garage on the campus of Florida International University.
Crane Rental provided three crawler cranes - two 300-tonne capacity Manitowoc 2250 cranes and one 200-tonne capacity Link-Belt HC-248H5 - to lift more than 2,600 concrete components into place.
The heaviest piece lifted was a 33.5-tonne shear wall.
Crane Rental is a member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) network.
USA-based Maxim Crane Works has appointed Larry Lis as the company’s chief operations officer.
Mammoet is deploying its 3,200-tonne capacity PTC210-DS ring crane to lift a huge A-frame for Van Oord’s installation vessel Svanen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
UK-based lifting solutions and equipment provider Southern Cranes has purchased 10 Grove all-terrain cranes from Manitowoc as it updates its fleet.
Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of Great Abidjan, the fourth G5-class multipurpose ro-ro vessel in a six-vessel order from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Ulsan, South Korea.
Container shipping group MSC, through its subsidiary SAS Shipping Agencies Services Sàrl, has proposed a NOK7.64 billion (USD700 million) takeover of Norwegian ro-ro tonnage provider Gram Car Carriers (GCC).
Ro-ro carrier Wallenius Wilhelmsen and Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) have signed a 20-year terminal agreement consolidating the company’s port and logistics operations at the port of Brunswick.
