16.09.2012

ALE forms JV with Roll-Lift

Heavy lift specialist ALE has announced the formation of a new joint venture with Netherlands based heavy lift and transport company Roll-Lift. ALE’s second joint venture announcement in less than three weeks. See ALE and ECR form Joint Venture
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The venture - ALE Roll-lift Canada will be based in Edmonton, Alberta, and will pool the two companies expertise and resources to offer heavy lift contracting and transportation to customers in the region. Initially targets at the oil, energy, mining and petrochemical markets across Canada.

The joint venture intends to invest in a fleet of heavylift cranes from 50 to over 1,000 tonnes capacity, lifting systems and specialised transport with the addition of the parent companies global resources, and investments in new equipment.

The new business is expected to begin operations in early 2013 and is planning to invest $50 million over the next two years.
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Roll-Lift was formed at the end of last year as a division of Roll-Dock the marine lifting and specialised shipping company controlled by Jan van Seumeren senior. See Roll Dock moves into cranes .
The company initially targeted South America and Russia and has worked on contracts in Brazil and Uruguay, its crane fleet already includes a 1,350 tonne Liebherr LR11350 crawler crane with Power Boom attachment and a 500 tonne Liebherr LTM1500 All Terrain.
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Roll-Lift has already built up an impressive big crane fleet

Vertikal Comment

The selection of Roll-Lift as a partner is an interesting move on ALE’s part as it looks to add to its worldwide market coverage in order to compete with Mammoet and Sarens for heavy lift projects, in what is expected to be a fast growing market over the next 10 years.

Roll-Lift itself has no direct experience in this region, however Mammoet does and Roll-Lift is managed by ex-Mammoet staff. This industry is very much a people business and one imagines that the new venture will attract at least the interest of a few Mammoet or ex Mammoet colleagues in the region?