This meant that the roof could not be disassembled or destroyed in any way, but careful removal in one piece would be necessary for the works. It is now used for a range of sports events and serves as the home stadium to the local top-league basketball side Saski Baskonia.Ĭrowning the arena is an 81m diameter domed roof covering a surface area of over 5,600m2, which is an iconic feature of the city’s skyline having become an international architectural award-winning structure since its construction 37 years ago. The business segment Rickmers-Linie operates a fleet of 18 multi- purpose heavy lift vessels, which offers a regular world-wide service for heavy lift and project cargo.Liebherr Crane helps in expansion of Spanish stadiumĪt a stadium expansion project taking place in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in northern Spain, Liebherr has used an LR 11350 crawler crane to lift the arena’s prestigious 200t roof.Ĭonstructed in 1975 and originally used as a cattle market, the Fernando Buesa Arena was converted into a 9,900-seat stadium in the early 1990s. Rickmers manages a fleet of almost 100 vessels with 3,000 employees at sea and 480 employees ashore. Rickmers Group is an international shipping company in the business segments Maritime Assets, Maritime Services and Rickmers-Linie. The Liebherr Group’s holding company is Liebherr-International AG in Bulle/Switzerland, which is entirely owned by members of the Liebherr family.
In 2012 Liebherr achieved a consolidated turnover of €9.1 billion. The Liebherr Group comprises more than 130 companies across all continents with approximately 37,800 employees. In future, cranes with lifting capacities of up to 1,000 tonnes will be included in the ship crane portfolio. The range of heavy lift ship cranes will be extended by one type per year. This contract emphasizes Liebherr’s increased focus on the maritime heavy lift crane segment, as announced by the company during the SMM in Hamburg, the biggest trade fair of the shipbuilding industry. The co-operation between the two companies will perhaps be further consolidated in the future with the modernization of Rickmers’ fleet through the planned construction of several new vessels. Today, Liebherr handles a large number of its heavy lift sea transportations with the aid of ‘Rickmers-Linie’, a regular world- wide service for project cargo. Due to this new positioning and the low width of the cranes, valuable additional loading space on board the vessels was gained. For the first time the crane was positioned at the side of a container vessel rather than on the vessel’s centreline. In 1985 a special board crane emerged from the co-operation between the two owner-managed family businesses. Thanks to the worldwide service network and the high degree of vertical integration Liebherr serves its customers as a competent partner through the entire life cycle of the crane.īusiness relations between Liebherr and Rickmers date back to the seventies. This advantageous design enhances the ships’ stability. Moreover, the CBB cranes have a comparatively low total weight and a low centre of gravity.
The heavy lift cranes of the proven CBB series excel in their fast and precise Litronic® control system, which is also used in offshore and mobile harbour cranes. In comparison with previous units of the same ship type, the crane capacities have been increased from 400 to 450 tonnes, thus improving the ships’ utilization. They will be installed on two ships in the well-known Hudong- Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, China and in the future will handle heavy and general cargo all over the world. The six heavy lift cranes are being built by Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH and will be delivered to the customer in 2014. The positive trend in the heavy lift crane segment continues and Liebherr has confirmed its leading position with this contract, having won all the tendered contracts in recent times. Liebherr was recently awarded a remarkable contract covering the delivery of six heavy lift ship cranes for the traditional German shipping company Rickmers.įour of the heavy lift cranes are type CBB 4700 with a lifting capacity of 450 tonnes and the remaining two are type CBB 3450 with a lifting capacity of 120 tonnes.