Dutch heavy-lift specialist Mammoet is advocating for early project cooperation on complex lifting operations. According to the company, involvement in early planning phases enables optimized crane selection, shorter standtimes, and lower overall costs. The strategy targets major projects in energy and industrial plant construction, where specialized cranes with lifting capacities beyond 1,000 tons are deployed. For niche providers of mobile cranes, this could open opportunities if early planning favors modular solutions over specialized crane solutions – concrete market effects remain to be seen.