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INTERNATIONAL Volume 25 ■ Number 9 ■ JUNE 2017 www.craneworld.com A KHL Group publication SC&RA Job of the year ■ ■ ■ WIND POWER TRANSPORT DOCKSIDE LIFTING ITC REVIEW THE KNOWLEDGE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE IC 06 2017 Front Cover.indd 4 08/06/2017 09:48:18 Untitled-1 1 08/06/2017 10:09:27 COMMENT INTERNATIONAL VOLUME 25 ■ NUMBER 9 ■ JUNE 2017 EDITOR’S VIEW Chosen as the official magazine of the SC&RA (Specialized Carriers & t’s IC50 time again. For 22 years we have Rigging Association) been running this ranking of the world’s KHL CRANES European partner: June 2017 largest crane-owning companies and it INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CRANES & TRANSPORT Volume 13 ■ Issue 6 Approved media The magazine forfor thethhee crane,crane e,el liftinglifting andand transporttranr industry I Volume 25 ■ Number 9 ■ JUNE 2017 A KHL Group Publication www.craneworld.com www.khl.com/act A KHL Group publication INTERVIEWINTERVIEW Link-Belt’s ppartner for: continues to develop. It is subject to constant Melvin Porter PRODUCT FOCUS Truck change and this year has been no exception. cranes Acquisitions and mergers figure strongly, as Official domestic North America’s magazine of the SC&RA top crane-owning SC&RA Job of the year companies ■ ■ ■ does a small group of companies with big growth WIND POWER TRANSPORT DOCKSIDE LIFTING ITC REVIEW THE KNOWLEDGE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE IC50: 2011-2015 www.craneworld.com A KHL EXECUTIVE REPORT A KHL Group publication KHL CONTACTS in their fleets. Overall, the 2017 IC50 (page 13) WORLD CRANE REPORT AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT UNITED KINGDOM is characterised by a more modest increase in KHL Group The most comprehensive crane reference guide in the world GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF FLEETS, TRENDS, FINANCIALS AND ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS Southfields, Southview Road, Ranking the world’s largest capability this year than last. It shows that, so crane-owning companies Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6TP, UK. 2011-2015 Tel: +44 (0)1892 784088 far at least, the world’s top crane operators are still very much making PUBLISHED BY Price: US$80.00, €60.00, £50.00 Fax: +44 (0)1892 784086 INTERNATIONAL AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT ■ IC50 2011-2015 1 www.khl.com/ic a go of it regardless of the widespread economic uncertainty, war, USA OFFICE terrorism, political upheaval and so on, that we are constantly seeing KHL Group Americas LLC e-NEWSLETTER 3726 E. Ember Glow Way, and being told about. Phoenix, AZ 85050, USA. Tel: +1 480 6590578 So it is encouraging to say the least to see growth in the IC50 again. e-mail: [email protected] SOUTH AMERICA OFFICE Long may it continue. Hopefully, in time for next year’s ranking, a www.worldcraneweek.com KHL Group Américas LLC Manquehue Norte 151, good proportion of these multiple crane orders we have seen in the of 1108. Las Condes, Santiago, Chile. Tel: +56 2 28850321 news over the last two or three months will have percolated through WEBSITES e-mail: [email protected] as delivered cranes expanding and increasing the capability of IC50 CHINA OFFICE Beijing Representative Office, owners’ fleets. Looking at the news starting on page 6 there is a Room 768, Poly Plaza, No.14, www.khl.com/cranes South Dong Zhi Men Street, Dong Cheng distinct lack of those stories but, still, there's some good positive District, Beijing 100027, P.R. China. Tel: +86 10 6553 6676 news, including Sennebogen’s announcement of its third new crane in e-mail: [email protected] almost as many months, an interesting innovation from Modulift, and a www.khlcranemarket.com UK/GERMANY/SPAIN/AUSTRIA/ redesign for the Demag AC 100-4L. SWITZERLAND/NORDIC NATIONS Mike Posener, sales manager No sooner have we published the IC50 we turn our attention to the Tel: +353 (0)86 0431219 EVENTS e-mail: [email protected] next of our annual league tables: the IC Transport 50 ranking of the www.khl.com/events THE NETHERLANDS largest specialized transport fleets. We are looking for entries so, if Arthur Schavemaker Tel: +31 (0)547 275005 your company is eligible, please do complete and return an entry form. e-mail: [email protected] FRANCE/BELGIUM/LUXEMBOURG Either ask me for one or there is a link to download an entry form in Hamilton Pearman Tel: +33 (0)1 45930858 the story on our website www.khl.com and search for “Transport 50” if e-mail: [email protected] the story is not immediately visible. ITALY www.khl-wcts.com Fabio Potestà Now that it is official (see ESTA news on page 61), I would just like Tel: +39 010 5704948 e-mail: [email protected] to mention someone I have known in the industry for nearly 20 years. KOREA Søren Jansen has announced his retirement from his position as CH Park Tel: +82 (0)2 7301234 ESTA director at the end of June. I met him soon after I first started e-mail: [email protected] TURKEY writing about cranes. Even that long ago he already had many years Emre Apa Tel: +90 532 2343616 of experience, in the USA and in Europe. Søren was running BMS in e-mail: [email protected] Denmark, at the time, Scandinavia’s largest crane rental company. www.liftandmoveusa.com CHINA Cathy Yao I am grateful to him that he made the mistake of listening to my Tel: +86 (0)10 65536676 e-mail: [email protected] probably naive and incoherent questions, helping me over the years to JAPAN understand many aspects of the industry. Thanks to him for passing on Michihiro Kawahara Tel: +81 (0)3 32123671 some of his vast and valuable knowledge and experience. In a similar e-mail: [email protected] USA/CANADA vein, I hope that I too can pass on something useful and helpful. Matt Burk Tel: +1 312 4963314 www.khl-group.com/events/esta e-mail: [email protected] ALEX DAHM Bev O’Dell Tel: +1 816 8861858 Editor e-mail: [email protected] INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACE Julia Bossie TOWER Tel: +44 (0)1892 786204 e-mail: [email protected] Correspondence is welcome and should be sent to: CRANES The Editor, International Cranes and Specialized Transport, Southfields, Southview Road, Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6TP, UK www.khl.com/itc MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL CRANES AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT ■ JUNE 2017 3 IC 06 2017 Comment.indd 3 08/06/2017 12:48:04 [email protected] en.zoomlion.com Copyright 2017 Zoomlion group. All rights reserved. Untitled-1 1 08/06/2017 10:10:08 CONTENTS ON THE COVER INTERNATIONAL IN THIS ISSUE Volume 25 ■ Number 9 ■ JUNE 2017 www.craneworld.com A KHL Group publication FEATURES IC50 13 The wait is over: here is this year’s IC50 ranking of the world’s largest crane-owning companies. SC&RA Job of the year WIND POWER TRANSPORT ■ DOCKSIDE LIFTING ■ ITC REVIEW ■ THE KNOWLEDGE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE Fagioli, at 59 in this year’s IC50, completed lifting, transport and SC&RA JOBS OF THE YEAR 29 installation work to build one D.Ann Shiffler and Hannah Sundermeyer, from ICST of the world’s largest offshore sister magazine American Cranes & Transport, bring platforms. See pages 29 and 34 this exclusive report on the and the IC50 on page 13. 2017 SC&RA Job of the Year contest winners. WIND POWER TRANSPORT 23 Onshore and offshore wind farms pose very DOCKSIDE LIFTING 45 SUBSCRIPTIONS different challenges for companies transporting Equipment manufacturers To subscribe to International Cranes wind turbine components to them. are innovating to keep up and Specialized Transport or any of the magazines in the KHL portfolio: with the ever-increasing American Cranes & Transport; size of vessels. 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