UK managing director Gordon Adie said: “We’ve started 2007 with an order backlog which means we already have 50% of our 2007 order book in our hands.”

He added: “Our individual market segment performances have been on budget for standard and special cranes and our modernisation team are ahead of budget – being 12% up [on the previous year].”

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We’ve started 2007 with an order backlog which means we already have 50% of our 2007 order book in our hands