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Latest News header September 02, 2010
Sophisticated Cranes (08/19/2010)

Location: Kristiansand, Norway
Job: Installing ship cranes
Challenge: Heavy lifts

Our customer in Kristiansand builds sophisticated knuckle-boom cranes with active heave compensation for the offshore industry. After erection and testing of a crane on a foundation onshore they once had to disassemble the crane to install it onboard a ship, using a harbor crane. This process was inefficient and time-consuming.

Mammoet at Cape Canaveral (08/06/2010)

Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
Job: Installing lightning protection towers
Challenge: lifting at a special site

Mammoet USA was contracted to install the massive steel towers that are part of the new Lightning Protection System at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.