At Hong Kong International Airport, a COPMA 7500 truck-mounted loader crane worked a coordinated tandem lift of an outsize project module beside an Antonov Airlines An-124 freighter, sharing the load with a second crane and with ground handling by Metrogain.
The COPMA 7500 is one of the largest cranes in the COPMA knuckle boom loader range. A job like this is exactly what the machine is built for: moving heavy, awkward cargo into an exact position, in a tight airside window, right next to an aircraft.
A high lifting moment and progressive hydraulic extensions let a single truck-mounted COPMA 7500 place heavy loads at distance, without the footprint or setup time of a crawler crane. Paired with a second crane in a tandem lift, that envelope widens further, so an outsize module can be lifted clear and set down under full control.
Proportional hydraulics and load-moment limiting hold the load steady through the pick, the slew and the set-down. In a tandem lift, where two cranes share one load, that steadiness is what keeps the module level and the operation safe.
On an apron, beside a freighter, on a fixed schedule, the equipment has to work first time. That is the brief the COPMA 7500 is designed for, and the reason operators reach for it on project-cargo and heavy-lift work.
A tandem lift divides one load between two cranes. For a long or outsize module that a single machine could not balance or place in the space available, two coordinated cranes give both the capacity and the control to do it cleanly.
COPMA is a loader crane brand of CPS Group. Explore the COPMA 7500 and the wider range on the CPS Group website.