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Demag/Terex crane orders in the Middle East

Terex has won major crane orders from customers in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Saudi Arabian crane rental company, Arabian Consolidated Trading (ACT Crane & Heavy Equipment), is expanding its crane fleet with a recent order for four Demag AC 160-5, two AC 300-6 all-terrain cranes and four Terex RT 90 rough terrain cranes. The new units will be used by ACT customers at its locations Jubail Industrial City and Yanbu Al-Bahr. ACT Crane & Heavy Equipment is taking delivery of the new Demag and Terex crane model
August 16, 2018 Read time: 2 mins
The Terex RT 90 is amongst the Demag and Terex crane models being supplied to customers in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
Terex has won major crane orders from customers in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.


Saudi Arabian crane rental company, Arabian Consolidated Trading (ACT Crane & Heavy Equipment), is expanding its crane fleet with a recent order for four Demag AC 160-5, two AC 300-6 all-terrain cranes and four 1222 Terex RT 90 rough terrain cranes. The new units will be used by ACT customers at its locations Jubail Industrial City and Yanbu Al-Bahr.

ACT Crane & Heavy Equipment is taking delivery of the new Demag and Terex crane models and will commission the units over the coming months.

Meanwhile Kuwait’s Jassim Transport & Stevedoring Co KSCC (JTC) has placed an order for six new Demag all-terrain cranes, including one AC 100-4 model, three AC 130-5 models and two AC 160-5 models. These new units, along with the six other Demag all- terrain cranes that JTC purchased within the last two years, expand the company’s Terex and Demag crane fleet to more than 50 units. The machines are scheduled for delivery later this year.

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