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Still room for upward mobility
thus tap into latent demand for its products.
The original Nenzing, Austria plant can still build
the full range of mobile harbour cranes, but the larger
ones are increasingly being built at Rostock, which
has obvious advantages in terms of its waterside load-
The references supplied by Liebherr, Gottwald and
2008 was another record year in the mobile harbour
out capabilities, suitable for shipping fully-erect
Reggiane (see tables 1-3 on next page) for 2008 come
cranes. However, Liebherr’s crane factories (Nenzing,
to a total of 207 cranes, another year on year record
crane market (just!). This year may well be difficult,
Killarney, Sunderland and Rostock) are flexible and
for the mobile harbour crane sector, beating the 2007
production can be switched between them.
figure by one crane. Gottwald is showing 92 cranes,
but the inherent flexibility of the cranes will help to
including one rail-mounted (HSK) and three pon-
toon-mounted (HPK) variants on its mobile har- sustain their popularity
Further expansion
On the back of the record order book, the company
bour crane principle, compared to 96 last year (-
is extending its Nenzing factory again. A new 12,000
4%). Reggiane is showing 13 cranes compared to 22 ex-works deliveries. Underscoring the fierce com- threshold and also take over the “number one” spot,
m
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production hall was opened at the facility only in
in 2007 (-40%), while Liebherr’s output has gone petition in the mobile harbour crane field between in terms of a number count, from Gottwald.
March 2008, following a €28M investment in 2007.
up by 16% from 88 to 102 cranes including one rail- Gottwald and Liebherr, Liebherr believes that its own This both vindicates, and is partly explained by,
Nenzing remains Liebherr’s largest production
mounted (LPS) variant. approach understates its influence in the market. Liebherr group’s decision to expand production ca-
base for maritime-related handling equipment, which
No exact comparison is possible between the Whether that is the case or not, there is no deny- pacity by investing in a new plant for port cranes in
is managed globally by Liebherr-MCCtec GmbH.
tables, as Gottwald and Reggiane base their figures ing Liebherr’s tremendous achievement, in being the Rostock. This enabled it to match the short lead times
It produces rope dredgers, oil platform cranes and
on order intake, whilst Liebherr bases its results on first supplier to break through the 100 cranes/year expected in the mobile harbour crane segment and
drilling equipment as well as mobile harbour cranes
and container reach stackers.
“We are building a new and extensively auto-
mated production hall and we plan to employ addi-
tional staff,” said Wolfgang Pfister, Liebherr-Werk
www.gottwald.com
Nenzing’s marketing director. In 2007 the plant
logged sales of €819M and had a staff of 650. The
orderbook hit a record €1.2B.
The most popular Gottwald crane last year was
the Generation 5 (‘G’ prefix) Model 6, with 47 units
logged (51.1% of total), including 35 G HMK 6407
cranes. Two units of the latest addition to the Model
6, the G HMK 5607 (max. 120t), were also sold.
With a count of 92 compared to 96 in 2007,
Top: A giant Liebherr LHM 600 discharging a gantry
crane at RHB, Rotterdam. Middle: Gottwald G HMK
6407 working in bulk mode at Zuid Natie, Antwerp.
Bottom: Reggiane MHC 5000 cranes performing tandem
lift on yacht at Multi-Link, Kokta
As the technological leader, we
“
extended the horizon and adapted
Mobile Harbour Crane technology
for use as Portal and Floating Cranes.
”
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