At the height of Dubai's building boom, perhaps half of all the world'scranes taller than 60m were thought to be crammed into the tiny emirate.
The urgent demand to build had a magnetic attraction for the global lifting and hoisting industry. Crane manufacturers, hire companies and specialist rigging businesses flooded the desert skyline with an increasingly ambitious array of projects.
"Up until the end of [2008], we were delivering 15 to 20 new cranes a month to Dubai," says David Semple, the Middle East sales director forManitowoc, one of the world's leading crane manufacturers. Since early last year, demand has fallen to zero, he adds.
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