All Dockside/Port Articles

Cargotec will stop production at its Salo facility in Finland and reduce its wider workforce as part of a consolidation scheme. Some 270 jobs will be cut by reducing permanent and external contracts and not replacing retiring or resigning employees

Gottwald Port Technology GmbH in Germany has sold five of its G HMK 6407 mobile harbour cranes to ports in Chile and Colombia

Wallmann & Co. at the port of Hamburg in Germany has added a second Liebherr LHM 500 mobile harbour crane to further improve its operation

Increased lifting requirements at ports have meant dockside cranes have had to become faster, bigger and more flexible. Euan Youdale reports

Two Gottwald Generation 5 floating cranes, headed for the lower Mississippi in the US, will be brought together with three others on the river under a new joint venture

Contiga, a Norwegian-based supplier of prefabricated concrete and steel solutions in Scandinavia, recently took delivery of its fifth Shuttlelift ISL gantry crane.

Lifting tests have been carried out on what is claimed to be the world's biggest gantry crane at the Yantai Raffles Shipyard (YRS) in China.

MacGregor Cranes will supply 40 cranes for ten general cargo vessels under construction for German shipping company Hermann Buss.

Liebherr will enlarge its maritime crane division factories in Germany and Ireland as part of a major investment in new facilities.