SECTOR REPORT Ӏ HEAVY LIFTING


HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPIONS


As the world gets more complicated and ambitions increase, heavier loads need to be lifted. Julian Champkin reports


Loads are getting heavier. Cranes are getting bigger. And the market for big cranes and heavy lifting is getting bigger, too. Consider for example two market-leading names: crane manufacturer Liebherr and heavy lift and transportation specialist Sarens. Liebherr’s latest heavy-lift crawler crane is its LR12500-1.0 which can lift 2,500 tonnes. It is not quite its biggest crawler – it has its LR13000 which Liebherr claims as the most powerful conventional crawler in the world. It has, as the name suggests, a capacity of 3,000 tonnes. Even so the LR12500-1.0 is a giant of a beast. It has been designed, says Liebherr, as ‘an economical crawler crane for global projects’. Sarens bought its first one last year, not long after it was introduced.


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