In the late 1970s, MAN Diesel & Turbo in Copenhagen conducted an investigation into the building-in heights of engine room cranes, and found that, at that time, all engine room cranes on the market required far too much headroom.

We therefore decided to develop a particularly low-headroom crane, for which we were granted patents in many countries. The further development of this crane led to the ‘MAN B&W double-jib crane’.