The leading suppliers of mobile harbour cranes have recently passed major milestones, and this sector continues to benefit from product inno...

Finland’s Mantsinen Group has agreed to begin a strategic collaboration with Oudenaarde-based Heavy Handling for the distribution of its h...

The ‘heavy end’ of the grab market is proving resilient although doubts are now appearing about the potential that biomass handling can ...

A major player in the bulk handling equipment industry has changed hands, marking an important phase for the sector....

Although the gradual demise of bulk ship unloading by grab was being predicted in the 1990s for reasons of its inefficiency and environmenta...

During the final years of the 20th Century the long-established grab gantry unloader seemed doomed to become the dinosaur of bulk ship unloa...

Konecranes has acquired Danish port crane service company -and former crane manufacturer - Aarhus Maskinfabrik AS from Hydraulico Holding AS...

The market for gantry grab unloaders, in common with other types of dedicated bulk ship unloading equipment for high throughput applications...

Following a lengthy evaluation process, the Bristol Port Co has ordered a gantry grab unloader for its Royal Portbury Dock from Finnish manu...

Bulk cranes tend to be designed for much harder cycle duties than their container crane counterparts...

Like most of Europe, the Dutch bulk handling sector is forced to compete more and more with equipment manufactured in low cost countries lik...

Semi-automated processes are becoming a more important feature of bulk terminals as operators seek to improve performance levels and, where ...

The market for large bucket type continuous shipunloaders (CSUs) is relatively mature. However, projects for which CSUs are an integral part...

Although automated handling systems have been developed in industries such as mining, cement plants and waste processing, stockyard automati...

Konecranes has supplied an advanced grab drive system (AGD) for a 1500t/h grab unloader built by Voest Alpine, which is being erected at the...