Craning for Opportunities

March 2016

From a global perspective, the equipment rental industry in India is in its nascent stage. Currently, the average off take for rental is 7-8 per cent...

Tags: Equipment rental, Heavy Duty Cranes, Processing, Transportation, Haulage, Power Generation, Utilities, COAOI, Ashwin Gandhi, Sunil Makad, Steel Carriers Infrastructure, Hitesh Obhan, Ishardas & Sons, CRISL, GDP

Differential rates of RTO tax and entry tax a challenge

March 2016

Large number of heavy cranes has entered the market. Companies like Reliance have purchased their own cranes. As such rental would be very difficult ...

Tags: Ashwin Gandhi, President, Crane Owners Association of India, Nitin Gadkari, Heavy cranes, RTO, Road transport

Crane Owners Association Meet

November 2015

The announcement of new office bearers, unveiling new website of the association and felicitation of Ashwin Gandhi were the highlights of the third A...

Tags: Ashwin Gandhi, COAOI, Express Equipment Rental, Logistics, Crane, Manoj Chaudhari, Sarens Heavy Lift India, Debashis Ghosal, RTO, Takeshi Miyashita, Kobelco Cranes, Faulty Machines

Bigger is Better

August 2015

The past few years have been challenging for the crane industry. While industry voices affirm that a turnaround has begun, the consensus seems to be ...

Tags: Crane Industry, Manoj Agarwal, Escorts- Construction Equipment Ltd, Sumit Biswas, TIL Ltd, Ajay Kumar Somani, Liebherr India Pvt Ltd, Tushar Mehendale, ElectroMech, Ashwin Gandhi, Crane Owners Association of India, Infrastructure, Somani, Manitowoc Cranes India, Raman Joshi