Equipment Purchases

Unic Cranes Europe, the European Master Dealer for Unic mini spider cranes, has successfully delivered 12 of the world’s largest capacity spider cranes to the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and logistics Organisation (FMI) in Denmark. The purchase of these machines will primarily be used by military staff to help lift and replace engines into […]

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd has received another order from Canada for one ship to shore (STS) container crane and one rail mounted gantry (RMG) crane for Termont Montreal Inc. The new STS and RMG cranes will operate at Termont’s Viau Terminal. The terminal opened in 2016 and quickly reached capacity. The new Liebherr equipment will […]

The first 8t SPX1280 minicrane from Jekko has arrived in the UAE for the first time and has just been delivered to Jekko’s dealer AJI Heavy Equipment Rental in Dubai. AJI, which will soon also take delivery of a SPX532, runs a young and diverse fleet of close to 500 units in the UAE consisting […]

Danish rental company, Lohke Materieludlejning is growing its fleet with more than 130 Snorkel lifts. The orders which were placed in February and March with official Snorkel distributor for Denmark, KH Lift ApS, include 120 Snorkel TM12 telescopic mast lifts, ten Snorkel S3219E electric slab scissor lifts and four Snorkel SL30RTE lithium-ion battery powered Speed […]

The north-London based rental business Mr Plant Hire has expanded its JLG fleet with 16 new JLG scissor lifts. The company took delivery of the eight R3246 and eight R2632 models, the first of the rebranded R range, in February. “We purchased these new machines shortly after JLG hosted the Access Alliance meeting in October […]

In December 2019, Kuenz installed two intermodal cranes for the Metrans Group, the first in Budapest and the second in Prague. The new cranes each have a lifting capacity of 37 tons and are handling containers, swap bodies and trailers. Kuenz have now installed a total of 15 cranes for Metrans since 2006. One of […]

In March 2020, Konecranes won its largest-ever reach stacker contract, from a customer in Germany. The order for 39 reach stackers was won with Konecranes’ distributor Richter Fördertechnik GmbH & Co. KG. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in Q3 2020 and run until Q1 2021. The contract is for the delivery of 39 Konecranes SMV […]

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is to supply the Belgian operator Delca Logistics BV (Delca) with a Super Gloria reachstacker with a lifting capacity of 45 tons. The order was booked in Cargotec’s 2020 Q1 order intake, with delivery of the machine scheduled to take place in Q4 of 2020. The Kalmar Super Gloria is the […]

Last July, Durban-based Avka Plant Hire took delivery of the first ever fuel electric (FE) aerial work platform in the South Africa.  The 20.16 m (65 ft 7 in) working height Genie® Z®-60 FE hybrid boom lift was provided by authorised Genie Distributor Goscor Access Solutions (GAS).  In just four months the utilisation rates and […]

Japanese MEWP rental company Fujikenki Lease based in Osaka, Japan, has bought an Easy Lift crawler platform for its fleet. Fujikenki Lease has chosen a hybrid RA31 with 18.5 kW Kubota engine and 200 Ah 48V lithium battery. The RA31 model was chosen for its reduced weight and dimensions, combined with a long outreach (14.5 […]