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Mobile Cranes
Infrastructure

CABLEWAY TO THE TOP IN NORWAY

The north Italian company Leitner AG, which already built its first cable car for passenger transport in 1908, specialises in transporting winter sports enthusiasts up to the mountains, solving traffic problems in large cities, and making leisure facilities even more attractive through gondola lifts.

Leitner AG was contacted, as the city of Voss – in the middle of the Norwegian fjordland – was to find a replacement for the cableway Hangursbanen. This cableway, established in 1963, transported lots of skiers to and from the ski areas north of Voss. The Hangursbanen, which was also in operation during summertime, developed into a central part of the city’s infrastructure, and there was no doubt that a new cableway should be established when the original one closed in 2015.

By the end of 2017, Kranringen AS – the Norwegian part of the BMS Group – was asked to present a proposal for of the crane operation in connection with the establishment of the new Hangursbanen. The proprietors were pleased with Kranringen AS’s recommendations, for example, to lift close to and across the railroad, which has significant traffic 24 hours a day. However, Bane NOR, which is the state-owned company responsible for the Norwegian national railway infrastructure, had reservations and new calculations had to be made.

Subsequently, Kranringen AS has used a 130-tons mobile crane on the mountainside to mount the new supports for the cableway, while the top of the mountain was used for installing the top station. On the lower station, Kranringen AS used a 220-tons mobile crane.

The part of the assembly work that crossed the railroad was carried out at night, so the train traffic was disturbed as little as possible.

The penultimate part of the work in Voss included the construction of a restaurant in connection with the top station. The project has to be completed for the summer of 2019 – and before that, the final task for Kranringen AS is to get the 130 tons mobile crane safely down from the mountain when the snow is gone.

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