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WORLDCRANE& TRANSPORTSUMMIT
SPECIAL REPORT
full of cargo to stock the stores for
Christmas,”he said. “Butmanyof the
smaller businesses that used toperform
thiswork couldn’t afford the cost of doing
business in theseports.”
Bragg said thatCalifornia is losing its
middle class and that companies are
moving away fromhis state to stateswhere
thebusiness climate is friendlier, like
Nevada andTexas.However,California
weather iswonderful, henoted.
DavidRodrigues,CEO,Makro
Engenharia, based inBrazil, discussed
howhis company approaches safety.
WhileBrazil’s safety environment isnot
as stringent as it is inother countries, he
saidhis companyhasmodeled their safety
program tobeveryvigorous and that the
safety culture they createdhaspaidoff.
GrahamBrent, executivedirector,
NationalCommission for theCertification
ofCraneOperators, addressedwhat
the industryhas learned after almost
twodecades of professional testing.
Aftermuch analysis of statistics related
to amillion examinations, hegleaned
interesting facts about attitudes toward
safety andhow the industryhas been
impactedby craneoperator certification.
Energy industry roundtable
TudorVanHampton, adeputy editor for
ENR
Magazine,moderated a roundtable
discussion regarding lifting and transport
in theoil andgas sector. Panelists
includedKeithAnderson, chief rigging
engineer, Bechtel; JosephCollins, heavy
liftmanager, Becht Engineering; Frank
Bardonaro, president,MaximCrane;
and JoeyAndrews, lift planner,CITGO
PetroleumCorp. The consensus of the
panelwas that business is booming in the
oil andgas sector, and itwill continue to
boomunless oil prices get too low.
And finally, RodneyRather, vice
president,ALE, gave a spectacular report
on aworld record load-out project,
including theuseof ahigh capacity
modular ballast system and3Dbarge
monitoring.He showed two amazing
videos that gave adocumentary style look
at every element of theproject.
ThenextWorldCrane andTransport
Summitwill beheldNovember 4-5, 2015,
returning to theKrasnapolskyHotel in
Amsterdam, theNetherlands.Keepup
todatewithdevelopments of the event at
earlybird special
registration ratewill be available for those
who attended theMiami summit.Details
to follow.
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Reporting by Alex Dahm, D.Ann Shiffler and
John Skelly
Sponsors
Sponsors of theWorld Crane & Transport Summit included Gold Sponsor Terex, Silver
SponsorManitowoc and supporting sponsors A1A Software, Global Cranes, Goldhofer,
ITI Rigging Engineering, LSI Robway - a Trimble Company, Modulift, TII Sales including
Scheuerle, Nicolas and Kamag and Tech Safety Lines, plus conference sponsor DICA and
brochure sponsor Crosby Group. Association sponsors include Associpesa, CICA, National
Association for the Certification of Crane Operators, ESTA, Sindipisa, Sobratema and the
Florida Crane Owners Council. Media partner was Engineering News RecordMagazine. The
official program partner was the SC&RA.
Keynote Speaker Alan Barnhart surmised
that “work is not something you do to afford
to do the good stuff in life. Work is part of
the good stuff.”
More than 260 people from
around theworld attended the
summit held at the historic
Biltmore Hotel inMiami.
Link-Belt’s Bill Stramer discussed the ins and out of crane telematics and how this technology
can keep cranes up and running and ultimpate helpmaintain their value.
Rüdiger Zollondz from Terex Cranes and
Rainer Sasse from TII Group (Nicolas,
Scheuerle, Kamag) demonstrated the
influence of developments in the oil and
gas sector on the design of both lifting and
specialized transport equipment.
