Site Reports
DLM tensionmeters for Jan de Nul crane vessel
Dynamic Load Monitoring (UK) Ltd (DLM), of Southampton, UK has provided eight bespoke Running Line Monitors (RLMs) for Jan de Nul’s 236.8m-long Les Alizés, a next generation, 5000t capacity floating installation crane vessel, currently being built in China. DLM, a specialist in the design, manufacture, repair and calibration of load cells and load monitoring equipment, […]
World-first 5G-controlled intermodal cranes
A new intermodal terminal in Fényeslitke, Hungary, is set to become one of the largest and most modern terminals in Europe. The innovative crane technology for this comes from Kuenz, a market leader for intermodal container cranes. East-West Intermodal Logistics Ltd has 125 hectares of land at its disposal in Fényeslitke, Hungary, near the Ukrainian […]
Bowker orders new Flexi fleet for its Selby facility
Bowker Group, one of the UK’s leading independent third party logistics (3PL) service operators, has ordered a new fleet of Flexi articulated warehouse trucks designed and built in the UK by Narrow Aisle Ltd. The Flexi truck fleet will go into service at the Bowker distribution centre facility at Selby, Yorkshire. In addition to the […]
Delivering lifting solutions
Delivering lifting solutionsA leading International parcel delivery service provider needed a solution to help their operatives transfer maintenance plant and tooling from the basement level to the ground floor of their facility through a roller shutter door. The only access prior to installation of the jib crane was from stairs. It was clear that any […]
Enerpac lifts Waste-to-Energy project in UAE
Leading Turkish heavy lifting company, Hareket, relied upon Enerpac strand jacks to install superheater and vaporisation modules at the first United Arab Emirates waste-to-energy (WTE) facility in Sharjah. Generating up to 30MW of electricity, the facility will contribute to Sharjah’s effort to achieve, ‘zero waste-to-landfill,’ and the UAE to meeting its 2021 goal of diverting […]
DLM weighs turbine blades at MHI Vestas
Dynamic Load Monitoring (UK) Ltd. (DLM), of Southampton, UK has provided a wireless weighing solution for MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s facility at nearby Fawley. MHI Vestas needed an accurate way of measuring the weight of their 80m long turbine blades (the length of nine London buses back-to-back) at both the root and the tip upon […]
Towering success
Earlier this winter, the countryside of Novagli di Montichiari in Brescia, Italy was the backdrop to a spectacular maintenance operation carried out by a Genie ZX-135/70 articulated boom lift, on an aqueduct. The contractor, Perico Renato SrL Costruzioni Edili (Perico Renato), carefully planned the job to the smallest detail and was helped on site by […]
Keeping safety on the rails
Serious Labs, a global leader in virtual reality (VR) heavy equipment training simulators and blended learning solutions, has announced a pilot of its mobile elevating work platforms (MEWP) operator training simulator with Align JV, a joint venture of three leading construction companies delivering the Central 1 portion of HS2. Central 1 includes a 3.37km viaduct, […]
Jungheinrich’s automated solution for the BLG Logistics Group
The BLG Logistics Group is investing in an automated guided vehicle (AGV) system from Jungheinrich at its Bremen site. Two ERC 213a automated trucks will take over the supply and disposal of materials for a coating line in the Bremen logistics centre, from which BLG provides comprehensive services for the automotive sector. The order represents […]
Jumbo installs Karish FPSO mooring system and breaking its deep-water record.
On behalf of TechnipFMC, Jumbo Offshore successfully completed the first phase of work on Energean’s Karish gas field, offshore Israel, in October. Jumbo’s scope of work included transport and installation of 14 suction piles (part of a 14-point FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) mooring system), a tie-in manifold and a 24in deepwater gas sales […]