All points north: Oil up, international cargo trade booming, and interest rates down - life looks good for the Scandinavians

摘要

Much of Scandinavia's crane industry is focused on the North Sea oil business, although there is also a significant timber and pulp industry and, of course, construction. Major crane producers include loader crane manufacturers Hiab in Sweden and HMF in Denmark; KG Konecranes in Finland, producing overhead travelling cranes and gantry cranes; and Munck in Norway, which also acquired 66% of Dreggen in 2001, producing between them overhead travelling cranes and ship cranes. With conflict in the Middle East driving up the price of oil and with international containerised trade to and from China creating massive demand for container handling infrastructure, demand for offshore, marine, and dockside cranes is proving quite strong. With construction, however, the picture in Scandinavia is more mixed, but is also generally positive.