16
Vinç &
Proje Taşımacılığı
Eylül - Ekim
2013
WORLD NEWS
Dorman Long Technology (DLT) based
in the UK has been awarded a contract by
China Petroleum First Construction Company
(CPFCC) based in Henan province, China for
the design and supply of a modular jacking
tower system. The MYQ5000 tower system
will be used for the erection of petrochemical
vessels weighing up to 5,000 tonnes and up to
160 metres tall. For more on this news see the
energy sector story.
Wagenborg Nedlift in the Netherlands
has taken delivery of a new 750 tonne capacity
Liebherr LR 1750 crawler crane. The crawler
has a main boom, luffing jib and derrick mast
and can be configured with a super lift
counterweight carrier. It will join Wagenborg
Nedlift’s fleet, which includes more than 150
cranes up to 750 tonnes capacity. The crawler
will be used for projects in the power industry,
including on petrochemical sites and offshore
wind power.
In May the Malta Occupational Health
and Safety Authority (OHSA) and the European
Agency for Safety and Health at Work
organised a seminar on crane safety. The half
day seminar covered issues including, crane
erection and examination. It was for owners,
erectors and examiners of cranes.
Bridon International, a manufacturer of
steel wire and fibre ropes, has launched a
partnership with Kanoo Machinery, a distributor
of crane and industrial lifting products in the
Middle East. The announcement was made
during a conference on 21 May 2013, at the
Grand Ball room, Mövenpick hotel Al Khobar in
Saudi Arabia. Speeches were made by Bob
Jennings, general manager, Kanoo Machinery,
and Steve Hodgkins, general manager, Bridon
Middle East.
BigLift Shipping’s new heavy lift vessel,
Happy Sky, has begun its first voyage, from
Shanghai in China to Cape Lambert, Australia.
The 155 metre long vessel is transporting three
large modules for a port project in Cape
Lambert. The largest of the modules weighs
935 tonnes, while the smallest weighs 777
tonnes. Happy Sky was built by Larsen &
Toubro in India and features two 900 tonne
capacity Huisman heavy lift mast cranes. The
cranes have a lifting height of 40.9 m above
deck. The voyage is the first of four
consecutive shipments.
Italian hydraulic truck loader crane
manufacturer Fassi Gru has acquired French
company Marrel, a manufacturer of hook lifts,
skip loaders, tipper scissors and hydraulic
cylinders. The move is a joint partnership with
Miltra, Fassi’s French distributor. Fassi intends
to offer products from Marrel alongside
its articulated cranes. Marrel is based in
Andrézieux-Bouthéon, close to Lyon.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
Up 3% at
Terex Cranes
Sales up 21 % at
Kobelco Cranes
Terex Cranes reported 3% year-on-year
growth in revenues to US$ 521 million for the
second quarter of 2013. Operating income,
however, dropped to $23 million, compared
to $50 million in the second quarter of 2012.
Terex said while global markets were softer
than it had expected it had seen improved
orders for large crawler cranes.
The Terex Corporation overall reported
a 5% year-on-year drop in revenues for the
second quarter of 2013 to US$ 1.9 billion
after gains in the cranes and aerial work
platform divisions were offset by declines
elsewhere. Ron DeFeo, Terex Corp chairman
and CEO, said the marketplace overall had
softened compared to the manufacturer’s
original expectations for 2013.
Terex Corporation has revised its full-year
forecast and now expects to achieve total
revenues of between US$ 7.5 billion and US$
7.7 billion in 2013, down from its previous
estimate of US$ 7.9 billion to US$ 8.3 billion.
Its total forecast operating margin for the
year is between 6% and 7%, compared to its
previous outlook of between 7% and 8%.
Kobelco Cranes, part of Kobe Steel,
reported sales up 21 % for the first
quarter of the fiscal year 2013, largely
due to post-earthquake reconstruction
in Japan.
According to a statement released by
Kobe Steel, unit sales of crawler cranes
increased throughout Japan in the first
quarter of 2013 compared to the same
period last year. Unit crane sales also
increased due to the reconstruction
demand after the Great East Japan
Earthquake.
Crane sales in Japan were up
compared to last year and they increased
in Southeast Asia as a whole. Unit sales
in Europe, however, decreased.
Crane segment sales in the first
quarter of fiscal 2013 increased 21.2%
year-on-year from JPY 9.5 billion (US
$9.6 million) in the first quarter of
2012 to JPY 11.5 billion yen (US $11.7
million). Forecast sales for the full fiscal
year 2013 were estimated at JPY 61.0
billion (US $62.1 million).
In China Taiyuan Heavy Machinery
Group has built and tested a 6,400 tonne
capacity super heavy lifting gantry with
hydraulic hoisting.
The 6,400 tonne maximum load can
be lifted to a height of 120 metres, the
manufacturer said. Another feature is that the
lifting device, consisting of four interconnected
steel lattice towers, can be divided into a pair
of 3,200 tonne capacity units, which can be
used separately. Its modular design extends
further, as a system, which allows it to be
assembled in a wider range of lift capacity and
height combinations.
The super heavy lift gantry was
jointly developed by the Shanxi Province-
basedTaiyuan Heavy Machinery Group
with the SinochemGroup and Synfuels
Technology. The primary application is in
the petrochemical industry to erect the new
generation of 4,000 tonne and larger refinery
vessels, which is an emerging trend in China.
IC will provide further details as they
become available.
Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group’s 6,400 tonne
capacity hydraulic lifting gantry for erecting
refinery vessels has completed its dynamic
load testing, the manufacturer said
Taiyuan Heavy builds
6,400 tonne lifter
