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Despite the ongoing crisis in the global banking sector, share prices in other industries stabilised in September and then rose sharply when the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates. Chris Sleight reports

The crawler crane market has seen massive growth in the last five years and there is no sign of it slowing in the near future. Dominating that growth is the 300 tonnes and higher capacity sector, to meet the large-scale demands of power generation, petrochemical expansion and renewal projects. Euan Youdale reports

Venice, the Italian city world famous for its canals and gondolas, was the scene of a complicated bridge installation project. Fagioli moved and installed the new bridge over the Grand Canal in style: using a barge as a large gondola that carried SPMTs, a crane, lift towers and the three bridge sections. GINO KOSTER explains the details of the historical operation