Baltkran keeps lifting in the cold
NewsRussian crane OEM Baltkran is supplying cranes for an arctic port in Norilsk and a supply base in Western Siberia....
Baltkran on the rails in its home market
NewsRussia’s Baltkran is benefitting from the increase in rail traffic from Asia to Europe on the ‘New Silk Road’. This has increased cont...
Baltkran will soon turn 75
NewsBaltkran was founded 75 years ago, on 16th October, 1945. It was a state company until 1992...
A hive of activity in Russia
NewsRussia’s container throughput has risen sharply this year, and there are several ‘buying and selling’ initiatives in the container han...
Baltkran doubles up
NewsRussian crane manufacturer Baltkran has recently handed over a second intermodal crane to a rail terminal on the border of Poland and Lithua...
Yard crane production at a low
NewsAlthough RTG production has declined to a ten-year low in 2011, following an earlier cut-back in investment by terminal operators, the outlo...
Equipment in place to deal with upturn
NewsThe second half of the current year has seen a “mass arrival” of new cranes in Russian and other post-Soviet ports, as orders placed las...
More business for Baltkran
NewsRussian crane maker Baltkran, based in Kaliningrad, has recently supplied two more RMGs - a bulk handling crane with a capacity of 16t SWL (...
RTG production picks up again
NewsThe global RTG supply industry has been kept busy in 2008, with 614 cranes already due for delivery this year, compared with 681 in 2007 and...
Hirschmann order from Baltkran
NewsGermany-based Hirschmann Automation and Control reports an order from Baltkran, Russia’s leading gantry crane manufacturer, based in Kalin...
RTG production passes its peak
NewsRTG output soared in 2006, but will fall back by 30% in 2007 towards 2005 levels. Business is still strong, with over 660 cranes booked for ...
A peak in yard crane production?
NewsGlobal RTG output is set to rise 40% this year. However, there are proportionally fewer orders due for completion in 2007....
Baltkran to develop multi-purpose RMG
NewsKaliningrad-based crane producer Baltkran has won a tender for the development of a new multi-purpose, rail-mounted gantry crane for Russian...
Equipment investments on the up and up
NewsThe main operators in Russia’s biggest Baltic general cargo port are gearing up to cope with rising traffic....
RMG omissions
NewsIn your October 2005 article “Record year for RTGs,” we found to our surprise that our company supplied only one RMG crane during calend...