As they spoke, the cranes lifted out the first weapon canister and loaded it gingerly to the waiting transport bed, then turned their booms to pick up the second unit.

At the very end of the line a crane was loading a finished one onto a flatbed trailer.

A crane was present and several sidings with a goods yard and loading dock.

Nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the cranes can load and unload the new generation of ships that cannot fit through the Panama Canal.

A crane moved into Tirana's Stalin Boulevard at midnight on Thursday and loaded the dark bronze statue onto a truck, its head hanging over the back.

The company Palfinger AG is an international manufacturer of cranes, hydraulic lifting, loading and handling systems.

Almost two years ago, cranes loaded three red 'Pelamis' wave machines - named after a species of sea snake - on to container ships in the Orkneys.

At a dock in Helsinki, a crane is loading a storage container for transport.

The intention is that the crane will load a new one every time it has unloaded a container and as such reducing loading/unloading time of the ship.

The crane loaded us onto the roller rails at the end of our row of container racks.