In the 1990s, Bernie Lynch (The Lynch Mob) was like many other small crane owners in operating a Franna in his local market. He had his "light bulb moment" in 1997, when he purchased a US-made Lift Systems gantry.
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Construction of Jemena's $800 million Northern Gas Pipeline, which will bring Northern Territory gas to the east coast, official commenced this week.
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Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has secured new construction and fabrication contracts with a combined value of some $170 million
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The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) is offering up to $5 billion over five years in concessional finance to encourage and complement private sector investment in infrastructure that would benefit Northern Australia. This can include developments in airports, communications, energy, ports, rail and water.
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The federal government has announced work will start on upgrading a 5.5 km section of the Plenty Highway in the Harts Range area about 215 km north-east of Alice Springs, with the project awarded to NT-based Ostojic Group.
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Laing O'Rourke recently announced it has demobilised approximately 800 of its people from the Ichthys LNG Tanks Project in Darwin.
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Donald Cant Watts Corke recently announced a new line-up in their senior management team, with Neil Dickson appointed to the role of managing director.
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The "name the crane" competition, run by Northern Territory Government and Lendlease, received nearly 200 entries from seven local primary schools, with the winner announced this week.
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The ballots have all been counted in an election that saw the incumbent Northern Territory government defeated in spectacular fashion. Now the new NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner has appointed his new ministry that will influence the territory's construction sector.
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A large discovery of hydrocarbon liquids has been found in the Browse Basin some 220 kilometres off the northern coast of Western Australia. Currently in its final stage of construction, the Ichthys LNG Project is ranked amongst the most significant oil and gas projects in the world and it is a joint venture between Perth-based Inpex who are the operators, Total, CPC Corporation Taiwan, and the Australian subsidiaries of Tokyo Gas, Osaka Gas, Kansai Electric Power, Chubu Electric Power, and Toho Gas.
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