International heavy lift company Mammoet has ordered a further 24 Kobelco crawler cranes adding to its initial order for five at Bauma 2010.

The five at Bauma were 250 tonne capacity CKE2500-2 for operations in Brazil, Sakhalin and Middle East. Mammoet has increased its order for the CKE2500-2 to 23 and added a further six, 180 tonne capacity CKE1800, a total of 29 Kobelco cranes in the past year.

The latest cranes are scheduled for a number of projects from Russia to South America, Middle East, Europe and Australia. Seven CKE2500-2s are heading for the massive Gorgon off-shore LNG Project in Western Australia.

Three of the CKE2500-2’s, with tilt cab, 91 meter main boom, and 61 meter luffing jib are destined for The Netherlands. These will be used on a variety of high profile industrial, petrochemical and maritime projects including the TATA steel works, a new hospital in Utrecht and in Mammoet's own Port Terminal in Terneuzen.

The first five of a total of seven Kobelco CKE2500-2, 250 tonne capacity crawler cranes being commissioned by Kobelco for Mammoet to work on Barrow Island and on the mainland, for the massive Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia.

Mr Jan van Seumeren Jr chief technical officer of Mammoet said that "The reliability and capacity in the 250 tonnes class were the key factors in deciding to buy another 23 units of the CKE2500-2 for our worldwide operations."

Mammoet operates a large number of Kobelco cranes, having ordered the very first 250 tonne Kobelco when the model was introduced in 2000. The latest CKE2500-2 was introduced in 2005 and Kobelco says that more than 800 CKE2500s and related models have been delivered worldwide, making it one of its best selling crawler cranes on the market.

(Sourced from www.vertikal.net)