Al Jaber Heavy Lift & Transport LLC with the world's highest capacity mobile crane.

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18 Nov 2007

To meet the increasing worldwide needs of the continually changing lifting industry, Al Jaber Heavy Lift has announced it’s ownership of the world's highest capacity mobile crane with a 3,200 ton lifting capacity. The announcement was made during an exclusive hand over ceremony in Germany where various prominent industry figures were present.

The Terex® Demag CC8800-1 TWIN is an innovative modular crane system based on the multiple utilization modules of the CC8800-1. The name TWIN refers to the impressive double boom which increases the lifting capacity of the CC8800-1 by a factor of almost four in certain configurations whilst retaining the ability to pick and carry loads at the highest capacities.

Similarly, the luffing fly jib and the superlift mast are also doubled up and connected by cross-bracings and all winches and hook blocks are provided in pairs. Nevertheless, the new crane is extremely compact for its capacity and is designed to make dismantling, movement between projects and re-assembly quick and easy.

Operating as a pick-and-carry crawler crane with 3,200 ton lifting capacity and a maximum load moment of 44,000 meter tonnes the TWIN represents a considerable saving of both time and space requirements in the erection of large industrial facilities – when compared with ring lift cranes and jacking towers.

“We are pleased to announce our ownership of the world’s leading crawler crane that is designed to suit a wide range of applications including the petrochemical industry, power station, construction and major infrastructure projects” said Alex Mullins, Managing Director, Al Jaber Heavy Lift. “With its mobility and it’s exceptional lifting capacity, the crane represents a considerable saving of both time and space requirements in the erection of large industrial facilities when compared with ring lift cranes, sliding gantries and jacking towers.”

Al Jaber Heavy Lift & Transport LLC has about 300 cranes in their fleet including crawlers, all terrains, rough terrains and truck mounted lattice boom cranes. The new crane joins an existing fleet of large Demag lattice boom crawlers including CC 8800-1, CC 8800, CC 2800-1 and other models.

The crane, produced by the German based manufacturer and funded by Al Jaber’s investment, has taken eight years to develop and will be available for heavy lift requirements anywhere in the world.