Japanese crane manufacturer Tadano today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Demag mobile crane business from its US owner, the Terex Corporation. The total cost of the deal is approximately US$215 million which Tadano will meet from a combination of its own cash reserves and borrowed funds. In a statement issued this morning, … Read more
The Japan Crane Association voted to join the International Crane Stakeholders Assembly (ICSA) at its board meeting in June, bringing the number of ICSA member organisations to seven. Based in Tokyo, the Japan Crane Association (JCA) is a public corporation approved by the country’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Its main objective is to … Read more
ESTA is planning to step up promotion of its new European Crane Operators’ Licence to the industry’s clients as part of a move to maximise acceptance of the scheme. ECOL has already received expressions of interest and informal support from companies in the oil and gas, renewable energy and civil engineering sectors and is now … Read more
The first draft of ESTA’s new Best Practice Guide on the transport and erection of onshore wind turbines is due to be presented at ESTA’s autumn meeting in Piacenza, Italy in October. The guide is being produced with support from the crane manufacturer members of FEM – the European Materials Handling Federation – and the … Read more
Netherlands-based heavy lifting and transport specialist Mammoet has today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire leading UK-based rival ALE. News that the two were in talks first broke in the first week of July. The deal is subject to approval from the relevant competition authorities, but industry insiders do not expect that … Read more
Netherlands-based international heavy lift and transport specialist Mammoet is in talks to buy leading UK rival ALE. Industry experts say they believe the discussions have been underway for several months and are progressing well. However, any deal is likely to need approval from a number of competition authorities in different markets and the companies are … Read more
ESTA has been asked to support a new European Commission study set up to “explore health, safety, and environment (HSE) best practice in the wind power sector”. Called the Wind Harmony project, a team of experts will examine HSE standards in construction, operation and maintenance an decommissioning on both onshore and offshore wind sites. The full … Read more
International road transport association IRU is throwing its weight behind ESTA’s call for a network of abnormal road transport corridors to be created across Europe. ESTA has been arguing that such a policy could be coordinated with recent similar calls from NATO on behalf of Europe’s armed forces. The IRU was asked for comments by the … Read more
The European Commission’s Wind Harmony project – created to improve safety in Europe’s burgeoning wind energy sector – has agreed to include transportation in the study in response to a request from ESTA. Transport issues had previously been excluded as the consultants working on it feared that the project would become too wide-ranging. But following … Read more
Patricia Crespin from French association UFL has agreed to join the ESTA Board of Directors, and Łukasz Chwalczuk, from Polish organisation OSPTN, has also been elected a member of the ESTA Board. He has stepped down from his post as Transport Executive.