
The Global Crane Industry's Bi-Weekly Mini Magazine
More Than a Mini Magazine
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Booms Up Buzz is Crane Hub Global's bi-weekly mini magazine delivering crane industry news, project spotlights, equipment innovations, workforce features, event coverage, and industry trends from across the global crane, lifting, specialized transport, heavy haul, and heavy equipment sectors.
Designed for busy industry professionals, Booms Up Buzz delivers the latest news & industry highlights between every issue of Crane Hub Magazine.
The buzz that keeps the lifting world connected.
This edition highlights global crane headlines, major fleet investments, milestone anniversaries, heavy lift engineering, jobsite innovation, and the technology helping crane companies work smarter in the field.
🔸 Global Headlines
A look at major crane, lifting, transport, and construction developments from around the world, including new equipment launches, project milestones, company expansions, and industry leadership updates.
🔸 Heavy Lift & Transport Engineering
Mammoet completes another complex bridge replacement at Amsterdam Centraal Station, showcasing the precision planning, heavy lifting, and specialized transport expertise required for work in dense urban infrastructure environments.
🔸 Fleet Expansion & Market Growth
Rocksure International Limited expands its fleet with Ghana’s first Liebherr LRT 1130-2.1, strengthening heavy lifting capabilities across the country’s mining sector and reflecting continued investment in regional crane capacity.
🔸 OEM Milestones & Manufacturing Leadership
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing celebrates 50 years of engineering excellence, innovation, and global leadership in crane manufacturing, while XCMG introduces its next-generation M-Series crawler cranes for demanding international lifting applications.
🔸 Projects & Applications
Potain and Reynolds Rigging and Crane support the expansion of Milwaukee’s Froedtert Hospital with two tower cranes, helping keep construction moving while minimizing disruption to an active medical campus.
PSC Crane & Rigging helps launch the Governor’s Cup Regatta by providing the heavy lifting needed to safely place high-performance hydroplanes into Grand Lake St. Marys.
🔸 Equipment Spotlight
A SANY Group spotlight featuring the versatile STC900T5 truck crane and its growing role across North American lifting applications.
🔸 Technology & Operations
A Visual Dispatch technology spotlight exploring how connected software is helping crane companies simplify quoting, dispatching, scheduling, billing, and fleet management.
🔸 Industry Legacy
Verschoor Kranen & Transport celebrates 60 years of lifting expertise, reflecting on six decades of innovation, trusted partnerships, crane service, and specialized transport excellence.
🔸 Cranes in the Wild One of our most popular features showcasing extraordinary crane photography captured by operators, riggers, technicians, engineers, and lifting professionals working in the field.

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Booms Up Buzz is the crane industry’s fastest-growing, all-digital mini-mag dropping every two weeks to a global audience of operators, OEMs, contractors, and decision-makers. Backed by 20K+ LinkedIn subscribers (and climbing), it’s where the lifting community goes to stay informed and connected.
This edition highlights industry-leading projects, global milestones, safety innovation, and the partnerships shaping the crane and heavy lift sector right now.
🔸 Market Watch A look at the trends shaping crane rental, fleet investment, infrastructure development, and project demand across global markets.
🔸 Certification, Compliance & Liability How evolving regulations, certification requirements, and contractual responsibilities are changing crane operations and rental agreements across Europe and beyond.
🔸 Cranes in the Wild One of our most popular features showcasing extraordinary crane photography captured by operators, riggers, technicians, engineers, and lifting professionals working in the field.
🔸 Industry Innovation Featuring equipment, technology, and solutions helping improve safety, productivity, efficiency, and operational performance throughout the lifting sector.
🔸 Safety & Best Practices Coverage focused on lift planning, risk management, workforce development, operational excellence, and lessons learned from real-world projects.
🔸 Projects & Applications A visual journey through some of the most impressive lifts, construction projects, infrastructure developments, wind energy installations, and industrial operations taking place around the world.
This edition highlights industry-leading projects, global milestones, safety innovation, and the partnerships shaping the crane and heavy lift sector right now.
Inside this issue:
• Cover Story: Buckner Heavy Lift Annual Homecoming celebrating the strength of a true family business
• Barnhart Crane & Rigging relocates the iconic Rocky statue in Philadelphia
• NCCCO Foundation’s Jobsite Safety Control Tool initiative advancing jobsite safety
• Tariff refunds and their impact on crane industry importers
• Verschoor Kranen & Transport at the annual flower parade
• Full wrap-up of the ESTA Awards
• Project Spotlight: Boss Crane & Rigging and Bennett Motor Express support the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington
• Liebherr delivers hands-on LTM 1400-6.1 training for Emerson Crane Hire
• Cranes in the Wild, capturing powerful and unexpected moments from the field
This edition highlights precision lifts, specialized transport, equipment innovation, and the global milestones shaping the crane and heavy lift industry right now.
Inside this issue:
• Cover Story: Twin Liebherr LTM 1230-5.1 cranes execute a precision night lift on Switzerland’s A1 motorway
• In Memoriam: Honoring Miguel Munárriz, co-founder of Comansa
• Mammoet at U.S. Congress supporting power plant development and infrastructure growth
• Historic transport of a microreactor by Mountain Crane Service and the U.S. Air Force
• Maxim Crane Works deploys the Tadano CC 78.1250-1 on its first job
• Topping out Omaha’s tallest Liebherr tower crane
• Morrow Equipment’s tower crane climbing classes shaping the next generation
• Project Spotlight: Autovictor installs a bridge using Cometto SPMTs and a Tadano CC 38.650-1
• Bernard Mobile Cranes supports refurbishment works at Edinburgh Castle
• Liebherr LR 12500 begins its journey to Japan
• Cranes in the Wild, capturing powerful and unexpected moments from the field
This St. Patrick’s Day Edition highlights the heavy lift projects, specialized transport moves, equipment innovation, and global milestones shaping the crane industry right now.
Inside Issue 4:
• Cover Story: “The Guinness Crane” rises at St. James’s Gate, blending heritage with precision lifting
• American Crane & Equipment Corp supports NASA’s Artemis II mission
• Mammoet’s SK crane delivers modular installation at the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi
• Mountain Crane Service returns historic trees to Temple Square during major renovations
• Myshak Group celebrates 30 years of lifting excellence
• Wasel GmbH expands fleet with five new Faymonville low-loaders
• DICA launches a complete engineered ground protection line
• Cranes in the Wild, capturing powerful and unexpected moments from the field
This edition highlights the heavy lift projects, specialized transport moves, equipment innovation, and workforce development shaping the crane industry right now.
Inside Issue 3:
• Mammoet Cover Story: Transporting a massive jacket structure with precision heavy haul expertise
• Sarens stadium lifting project in Lithuania
• Link-Belt’s new TCC-1800 telecrawler debut ahead of CONEXPO 2026
• Liebherr LTM 1090-4.3: New capability in the all-terrain market
• Felbermayr delivers a 10-metre-high industrial duct transport in Linz
• Sunbelt Rentals opens applications for a new apprenticeship class
• RSS launches an LEEA-accredited overhead crane training programme
• Manitowoc’s operator-driven approach to crane design and innovation
• Cranes in the Wild, our back-page feature celebrating cranes where real work happens
• The Hook Up, Quick Fire News unbiased headlines, no noise
Issue 2 Volume 2
The global crane market is under growing pressure, and this issue focuses on how compliance, regulation, and fleet risk are reshaping operations across borders.
Inside Issue 2:
• Liebherr Cover Story: Electrifying the Mississippi
• Capital risk under global compliance pressure
• Cross-border rental exposure and regulatory risk
• ANSI vs. EU standards, what fleet owners need to know
• Standardization vs. flexibility in modern crane fleets
• How Europe manages fleet compliance
• Global compliance outlook
• The Hook Up, Quick Fire News unbiased headlines, no noise
Issue 1 Volume 2
The crane market is changing and this issue is all about how the industry is lifting smarter, investing wiser, and preparing for what is next.
Inside the inaugural 2026 issue:
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Spending Smarter in a Smarter Crane Market
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Liebherr Cover Story: LR 1300.1 SX extreme lifts in Alaska with extreme conditions
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The rise of intelligent lifting and what it means on the jobsite
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Crane rentals in 2025 and beyond
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Heavy Lifting on the Gulf Coast
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A spotlight on North American fleets growing the fastest
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The Hook Up, Quick Fire News unbiased headlines, no noise









