Iebherr Tower Cranes division received its largest single order in its history for supplying 58 tower cranes for the upcoming airport project at Istanbul, Turkey. The new Istanbul Airport will be the largest airport in the world with around 150 million passengers passing through it every year from 2020. A total of 58 EC-H series cranes will be used to build the Istanbul Yeni Havalimani. The first of these tower cranes were delivered recently and will remain installed at the airport until 2018.

The preparations on the 9,000 hectare site 35 km to the north of the centre of Istanbul started in June 2014. A total of six runways and 165 passenger bridges will be built at the new transport hub.

For the actual building work, the Turkish contractor IGA Havalimani Isletmesi A.S. decided to use tower cranes from Liebherr and therefore awarded the division the largest single order in the history of the company. As many as 32 cranes of the 280 EC-H 12 Litronic type will work with 16 cranes of the 200 EC-H 10 Litronic type and will be supported by a further ten 154 EC-H 6 Litronic models. The Litronic cranes all have precision high performance drive units and an intelligent crane control system. Both ensure a high level of safety for people and material at hook heights of between 30 and 60 m with maximum load capacities of up to 12 tonnes each.