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INTERNATIONAL AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT ■ NOVEMBER 2013
ICm20
as an anomaly in the top 10 was
Tadano from Japan. In 9th place for
the third year running, its figure in
the table is lower than 2012 due to the
exchange rate going from JPY 79.00 to
the US Dollar last year to JPY 99.00 at
the time of writing in November 2013.
Net sales, however, were actually up
more than JPY 20 billion – a significant
18 % – partly due to the recovery in Japan
and the cleanup operation there following
the earthquake. Hitachi Sumitomo was
also up, by a more modest 2.5 %, while
Kobelco was down 5 %.
Similarly showing what might look like
an anomaly but, this time to the company’s
advantage, was Palfinger in 11th place.
It is up an impressive three places from
14th last year where the whole Group’s
sales revenue was up more than 10 % from
€526 million in 2011 to €561 million
in 2012. Converting that to US dollars
with the exchange rate gain in the last 12
months suggests a larger increase.
Having edged into the IC m20 last year
in 20th place, Favelle Favco has moved
up two places to 18th with a huge 44 %
increase in revenue driven by business
from the oil and gas sector. Manitex
displaces Furukawa Unic, which moves
just out of the table into 21st place. ■
the previous year.
The top five companies in the table
all posted increases, while the next two,
XCMG and Zoomlion from China in 6th
and 7th places, respectively, showed lower
revenue than the year before. Next in the
table, ZPMC, also from China, was up
slightly, although Sany, rounding out the
top ten was also down but retained its 10th
place. Sany and XCMG have both now got
tower cranes in their product portfolios.
Finding anomalies
Following the major slowdown in the
Chinese economy in 2012, where the
domestic manufacturers still make the vast
majority of their sales, it is little surprise
to see a fall. By number of units, sales
of mobile cranes in China in 2012 were
down by around 40 %. It was different
for dockside crane manufacturer ZPMC,
however, likely because many of its
cranes are delivered to ports around
the world.
For the last two years Chinese
manufacturers took the largest proportion
of the revenue total in the ICm20. This
year their $7.29 billion is around $500,000
down on 2012. Instead of 29 % of the total
it is now down slightly to 26 %.
What may appear at first glance
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