COMMENT Ӏ SEPTEMBER 2025
PRECISION AND POWER
If there’s one thing this issue highlights, it’s that our industry is built on two things: precision and power. Whether it’s lifting, moving, or manoeuvring, these are the twin forces that make the impossible possible. Take heavy lifting, for example. There’s raw power in the sheer scale of the projects we cover – lifts measured not just in tonnes, but in hundreds or thousands of tonnes. Yet what’s striking is that it isn’t brute strength alone that gets the job done. It’s the planning, the coordination, and the millimetre- perfect execution. A lift of that size doesn’t leave any room for error. That combination of massive capacity and exacting precision is what makes heavy lifting so impressive – and why those who specialise in it are rightly proud of their craft. The same goes for knuckle boom cranes, though on a very
different scale. Their value lies in their ability to operate with finesse. These machines thrive in confined spaces, bringing reach, articulation, and dexterity that other cranes can’t match. Knuckle booms are about control – weaving between obstacles, handling complex jobs in difficult environments, and doing so with efficiency and safety. If heavy lifting shows the muscle of the industry, knuckle booms show its agility. And then there’s specialised transport – often the unsung
hero of a project. Cranes tend to steal the spotlight, but moving the loads into place is every bit as spectacular. This issue’s transport feature proves it. From relocating a 713-tonne
MENTIONED IN THIS ISSUE Alevro Allseas
Aprojects
BKL Baukran Logistik Bode Bautechnik Broshuis
Capital Offshore
China Cosco Shipping Corporation (COSCO)
CMS
Collett & Sons Cometto Copma Denzai Doll
Dship Carriers Durham Lifting Enercon Enerpac
Engineered Rigging Erkin
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church in Sweden to threading 86-metre-long rotor blades through German backroads, these jobs are feats of logistics and ingenuity. Watching an SPMT train carry a landmark building or a blade lifter tilt its load to clear a forest path is a reminder that the 'show' doesn’t start with the lift – it starts long before, on the move.
What ties all of this together is the balance of engineering
power with human precision. Machines bring the strength but it’s the expertise of the teams behind them that makes success possible. The lift planners, the operators, the engineers, the drivers – their skill turns potential into performance. As our industry evolves – with growing demand for renewables
projects, complex infrastructure, and ever-more-challenging builds – that marriage of power and precision will only become more important. Bigger loads, tighter sites, stricter regulations: the future won’t make things easier. But it will make what this industry does even more vital, and even more impressive. So whether your focus is lifting high, manoeuvring tight,
or transporting wide, this issue celebrates the people and machines that make extraordinary jobs look routine. Power and precision: we need both, and we’re lucky to work in an industry that delivers them in spades.
Christian Shelton, Editor
Christian.Shelton@
btmi.com
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Fagioli Fassi
Faymonville Felbermayr Ford
Fosseway Hire GGR Group GCPC
HMF Group HMF Spain
Hofman Crane Rental HTSD
Huisman Hyva
Jinert
Jozef Hermans KCTC
Lankhorst Ropes Lannutti Group
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Liebherr
Link-Belt Cranes LKAB MAN
Mammoet Marraffa
McDonald Contracting MEI Industrial Solutions Monadelphous Ms Industry Mutares MultiSec Palfinger Sarens
Scheuerle SeAH Wind Tagi Logistics TRT
Veidekke
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