Three of ESTA’s top officials were unanimously re-elected for further three-year terms at the organisation’s General Assembly last month. André Friderici, Technical Director of Swiss-based Friderici Spécial, stays on as President of ESTA’s Section Transport; Jens Enggaard, CEO of Danish company BMS, remains as ESTA Treasurer; and Stijn Sarens, Global Key Account Manager at Belgian … Read more
ESTA has written to Turkish member AND – the Turkish Heavy Transport Association – in support of AND’s attempts to persuade the Turkish authorities to reform the country’s heavy transport regulations. AND hopes that Turkey will adopt similar regulations to those currently in force in Germany and the Netherlands. In his letter of support, ESTA … Read more
The latest meeting of the International Crane Stakeholders Assembly took place online in November. Final touches are being put to the long-awaited and detailed best practice guide on the safe use of mobile cranes on barges before its publication early next year. Delegates also decided to start work on a new best practice guide on … Read more
The online examination system for ESTA’s European Crane Operators Licence project is now up and running in three languages – English, Dutch and Danish – and work is underway on German and Spanish versions. In addition, three more companies have announced their intention to set up ECOL training centres – Aertssen and Michielsens in Belgium … Read more
Wouter van Noort, ESTA’s Section Cranes President and European Managing Director for Mammoet, has warned the crane industry of the long-term dangers of losing skilled employees during the Covid19 crisis. He made a strongly-worded plea during the recent joint meeting of ESTA’s transport and crane sections. He said: “As the crane industry, we are of … Read more
ESTA is planning to talk to the European Commission about the growing concerns surrounding planned changes to Germany’s VEMAGS permit regulations for heavy and abnormal transport. VEMAGS is the German online system for the application and approval for large-scale and heavy transports in all 16 federal states. Transport companies and their clients fear the new … Read more
Talks are underway with organisations in Germany, Ireland and Spain to establish mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) between the national crane operator licencing authorities and ESTA’s European Crane Operators Licence. ECOL has so far signed two MRAs – with the Netherlands and British Columbia in Canada. Such agreements involve ensuring that standards of the national licence … Read more
Joint work by ESTA and the IRU – the International Road Transport Union – to lobby for the creation of European heavy transport corridors that can be used for both military and non-military purposes looks close to success. The 1.5 billion euro proposal is contained in the budget for the 2021-27 budget for the CEF … Read more
ESTA Director Ton Klijn has made a direct appeal to British companies and associations not to let the Brexit debate divide – and weaken – the European heavy transport and lifting industries. Speaking at the close of the online ESTA Awards ceremony, Klijn said: “Brexit is something that most in Europe see as a completely … Read more
Five more training institutes have applied to join the European Crane Operators Licence system – three from Belgium and two from Germany. If their application is accepted, they will join the three training institutes already up and running – Mammoet in the Netherlands; EUC Lillebælt in Denmark; and Liebherr in Germany.