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LATEST NEWS

India gives go ahead for largest nuclear power plant
17 May, 2013 India’s Supreme Court has given the green light to the commissioning of the nation’s largest nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
  • Panama acquires 13 RTGs
    Panama Ports Company (PPC) has purchased 13 rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes of the ZPMC brand, capable of stowing up to seven containers high, local press announced recently. The cranes left Jiangyn in China on 22 April and will arrive at the Port of Balboa later this month.

LATEST FEATURES

Learning to do business in the new Europe
22 May, 2013 Faced with the ongoing eurozone crisis, crane manufacturers are quickly coming to terms with an uncertain, unpredictable, and often volatile market coupled with the specter of shrinking profit margins. Hoist looks at how manufacturers are coming to terms with doing business in the new Europe.
  • Taking control: survival and innovation
    It has often been considered that when the economy sneezes, the market for controls inevitably catches a cold. However, this resilient sector continues to grow and, in many cases, prosper, despite the challenging economic landscape.
  • Our Story… Terex Corporation
    Every issue Hoist tells the history of a company helping to shape the industry. We delve into the company’s past, charting its development since those early, formative years and we attempt to explain how the organization has grown and evolved. This is our history. This is Our Story.


BLOGS

Charting a course to healthier profits
10 May, 2013 If there is indeed a tide in the affairs of men, then port operators appear determined to take this tide at the flood and, should fortune smile, chart their course to a healthier profit margin. In this month’s issue of Hoist we cast a nautical gaze at the rise of Maersk's new Triple E, Super Post-Panamax, container vessel.
  • Have a giant in every port
    There was a wealth of activity in the dockside market last month, and since the start of the year. The opportunities in this market for the hoist manufactures is only set to grow as more ports join the list of those undergoing upgrades and expansions. The arrival of the giant dockside cranes at London’s newest port, London Gateway, is a clear signal for what is to come.
  • Material handling matters to Europe
    For the last four years, much of European industry has been in the doldrums, stifled first by the global financial crisis, and then, for many economies, by problems with sovereign debt. While the politics of austerity followed by many more successful nations over recent years may balance national accounts in the short term, it is unclear whether they have helped or, through compounding a stagnant investment environment, hindered business development. Our industry though, despite a mood of pessimism in some quarters, shows signs of bouncing back well from the crisis. In the latest Eurostat figures on material handling as a whole, collected by the European manufacturer's association, the FEM, thereare signs that, up to 2011, the industry was rebounding well.
  • Resolving a crisis
    As another challenging year comes to a close, 2012 seems to have shaped up fairly well for the overhead lifting industry. With some companies reporting record profits and others a stronger than expected rebound, even while sales fell, finally the fallout from the global financial crisis is somehow starting to look less worrisome. Having said that no-one is expecting 2013 to be much easier. Although capacity utilisation for many manufacturers is still heading towards the magical 80 per cent figure, a leisurely pace has slowed to a crawl, and now the 80 per cent figure is expected nearer 2015 than many expected.
  • Steering the ship
    Here at the offices at World Market Intelligence I have been bouncing ideas off colleagues about the best ways to ensure our content is relevant, timely and targeted squarely at our reader base.