Welsh rental company Miles Hire South Wales has taken delivery of four 19ft Snorkel S3219 Plus scissor lifts
01.09.2026
UK rental company GT Lifting Solutions has taken delivery of the world's first 40m/8,000kg Manitou MRT 4080 360 degree telehandlers
31.08.2026
Virginia based W.O. Grubb Crane Rental has appointed Ted Redmond as CEO, Dustin Fisher as CFO, and Michael Good as senior vice president operations
Most of the UK, where the majority of our English language team is based, has a public holiday on Monday, the last one until Christmas
28.08.2026
A man was seriously injured earlier this week when he was thrown from an overturning boom lift in the foothills of the Alps, south of Bolzano, Italy
UK rental company OTE Lifting has taken delivery of a 6t Böcker AK46/6000 truck crane
US based Sims Crane & Equipment has appointed Katie MacGillivary as chief financial officer
UK rental company Select Plant Hire has placed a £5 million order for JCB equipment, including telehandlers
A man was electrocuted on Tuesday while pruning trees from an aerial work platform in the Ahuntsic district of Montreal, Canada
27.08.2026
German rental company Richard Kölch & Sohn has taken a 60t Liebherr LTM 1060-3.1 All Terrain, replacing an older model
Australian crane rental & heavy haulage company WA Universal has taken delivery of a 40t Franna AT40-2 pick & carry crane
Sunward has appointed Wolfgang Jentsch as European service manager for aerial work platforms and telehandlers
Virgina based JK Technology Services has acquired crane & rigging company 360 Rigging of Manassas, Virginia
The gates open two weeks from today on what will be the biggest and hopefully the best Vertikal Days so far!
26.08.2026
German sales and rental company Kunze has expanded its dealership agreement with Magni to cover additional territory in Austria and Germany
UK rental company E.J. McGovern has taken delivery of the first 20t pewag levo load balancer in the UK
We have received the sad news that Stephanie Lacombe, co-founder and ‘matriarch’ of Lacombe Crane & Rigging in Houston, Texas, has died
A tower crane working on the new ArcelorMittal headquarters in Kirchberg/Luxembourg dropped its load from 60m onto an EU convention centre
A judgement has been handed down by a court in Melbourne, Australia for a fatal overhead crushing incident that involved the disabling of an anti-entrapment device
25.08.2026
Spanish crane rental group Grúas Aguilar has ordered 15 Liebherr cranes, including a range topping 800t LR 1800-1.0 crawler crane
Multitel has announced that its wholly owned distribution subsidiaries in France, Spain and the UK will take on the distribution of Palazzani spider lifts
Port operator DP World has won a Federal Court battle in Australia, allowing it to move crane operators out of the crane cabs and into a nearby office
25.08.2026 2
The annual Cranes & Access UK & Ireland Top Rental Fleet Guide returns for its 26th year, and the survey is now open!
24.08.2026
Belgian International Jan De Nul group has ordered a 165t MacGregor active heave-compensated (AHC) subsea crane
