Damen concludes keel laying of 75-metre crane barge for Panama
Keel laying for a Crane Barge 7532 has been completed at Damen Yichang Shipyard in Hubei Province, China. The vessel will be delivered in Panama and will replace a 77-year old crane still in operation. The...Read more
Liebherr develops new remote service app for cranes
Liebherr has developed a remote service tool for crawler cranes, deep foundation equipment and maritime cranes. The app allows operators to share visual information, resulting in faster and easier troubleshooting. As part of a test,...Read more
Huisman to lure submarine builders to Schiedam with special crane
Huisman has added a Submarine Handling Crane to its Schiedam facility in the Netherlands. The crane builder hopes it will entice the three non-Dutch manufacturers bidding on the contract to build the new Dutch submarines...Read more
New video shows breaking of installation vessel Orion’s crane hook
New video footage of the Orion accident has emerged on social media and it confirms that a failing hook was the cause for the accident. In the video, it is clearly visible that the hook...Read more
Container ship ONE lacking ballast when it hit terminal crane in Busan
The South Korean authorities have traced the cause of the accident in which a container ship of the Japanese shipping company ONE sailed into a crane in the port of Busan at the beginning of...Read more
Construction of offshore wind farms compromised by crane accident
The dramatic collapse of the 5000-tonne Liebherr crane on the new installation vessel of DEME in Rostock means that at least one client responsible for the construction of a wind farm has a problem. Probably...Read moreHook of offshore installation vessel Orion’s crane failed at 2600 tonnes
The malfunctioning crane hook causing the crane accident with DEME’s new offshore installation vessel Orion 1 was designed by Ropeblock based in the Netherlands. In a statement, Ropeblock has said the failure occurred at approximately...Read moreLiebherr: Third party hook caused Orion crane accident
A malfunctioning hook from an external supplier caused the crane accident onboard Deme’s new offshore vessel Orion 1. Why the hook did not withstand the load is still unclear, but authorities and experts unanimously agree...Read more
Video: 5000-tonne crane of new DEME vessel collapses
The 5000-tonne heavy-lift crane of DEME’s new installation vessel Orion 1 has collapsed while undergoing load tests at Liebherr’s construction yard in Rostock. Five people sustained minor injuries and vessel and crane have suffered damage....Read more
Huisman develops quick connector for safer offshore installations
Huisman and Jan De Nul Group have joined forces for the heavy lift equipment on board of the latter’s new offshore installation vessels Les Alizés and Voltaire. One of the outcomes of this cooperation is...Read more
Spliethoff orders pipe handling gantry cranes for new vessels
KenzFigee has been awarded a contract by Spliethoff for the delivery of two custom pipe handling gantry cranes for their two new build multipurpose DP2 B-type vessels. The ships are currently under construction at the...Read more
New deep sea quay cranes for RWG arrive in Rotterdam
Two new deep sea quay cranes arrived at Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) on Thursday 23 April. They will be commissioned in the coming months and are expected to be operational in the second half of...Read more
Heavy lift specialist Huisman appoints David Roodenburg as CEO
The Supervisory Board has appointed David Roodenburg to become the new statutory CEO of Huisman. Since 1980, Huisman has been owned and led by the Roodenburg family, growing from 20 employees to 2000 to date. His...Read more
Video – Container ship ONE sails crane to bits
A container ship of the Japanese shipping company ONE has hit a crane in the port of Busan in South Korea. The terminal crane immediately collapsed and partly ended up on the ship. The incident...Read more
Huisman to build 1600-mt crane for Japanese offshore wind
Huisman will deliver a 1600-metric-tonne Leg Encircling Crane to PaxOcean Engineering. The crane will be placed on Penta-Ocean’s new self-elevated platform to install twelve-megawatt wind turbines and various foundations including monopiles. The self-elevated platform (SEP) will...Read more