Being part of long-term projects might mean that the tower crane sector has been less affected by the global Covid-19 situation or it might be that we still have some time to wait before we know its impact. Either way, plenty has been going on in the interim. Alex Dahm reports

To give the safest and longest service, both steel wire and synthetic fibre rope needs to be treated well, correctly selected and of good quality. ICST reports

Other than Covid-19 there have also been some useful technological developments and innovation, plus interesting applications. Alex Dahm reports

The first job for the 3,000 US ton capacity VersaCrane TC-36000/S2 was a two-part coker replacement