Construction World February 2018

Johnson Crane Hire's 750 t Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom all terrain crane doing a wind farm installation.

Johnson Crane Hire undertaking a lift using a 400 ton crawler crane.

Peter Yaman, Johnson Crane Hire Sales Executive.

ahead for mining projects, as these have been somewhat depressed.” Infrastructure developments outside South Africa, however, continue apace and these have become a definite focus for Johnson Crane Hire. The company is actively engaged in work in a number of African countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia and

Zambia. The logistical challenges must just be taken in one’s stride, says Yaman. “Road transport is difficult, not just because of the poor physical condition of some roads, but because each country has its own different regulations in terms of liability, road loadings, axle loadings and related compliance issues,” he says. Johnson Crane Hire’s skills base is well established for its new project focus. Even

in its rental business, it always supplies its customers with the whole package: the crane assembly and operating staff, as well as added rigging services and equipment. “While we sometimes get requests to supply cranes without operators, we don’t do that,” says Yaman. “We always want to be in a position to operate the crane with our own trained personnel and safeguard the whole operation.” 

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