There are growing concerns regarding potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities in port equipment, particularly ship-to-shore container handling cranes. The US announced an Executive Order in February resulting in significant funding for improvements to port cybersecurity and authorizing the US Coast Guard to have a larger role in responding to malicious activity. Many recent articles focus on concerns that the equipment could be…
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Remembering Sue Jordan
Sue Jordan, wife of Liftech founder Mike Jordan, passed away on Friday, January 5, 2024, four months after Mike. Sue was a lifelong educator. She was an elementary school teacher in Berkeley before she stopped teaching when she had her first child. She continued to teach as a volunteer with local Oakland schools and as a docent at Oakland Museum…
Liftech Holiday Card
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Liftech is Excited to Announce a New Principal
We are pleased to announce the addition of a new principal, Di Liu. Di has been with Liftech 9 years. He is an experienced designer and project manager. His work includes structural analysis, design review, modification review, and feasibility studies of container cranes, wharves, and other structures. He has an MS and PhD from the University of Kentucky. He did…
Remembering Mike Jordan (1934–2023)
Michael A. Jordan, CE, SE Our founder Mike Jordan passed away on September 2, 2023, in his hometown of Oakland at the age of 88. We are saddened by his passing but remain uplifted by remembering his influence on our lives and our industry. As in the name of the company Mike established, “Liftech,” his life’s work lifted the transport…
Liftech Holiday Card
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Liftech Consultants Inc. and McKay International Engineers are Merging
Liftech Consultants Inc. and McKay International Engineers are excited to announce the merger of our industry-leading engineering and project management expertise in the maritime and material handling sectors. After 52 years of working closely together on hundreds of projects, McKay and Liftech have formally merged our companies to serve our clients’ structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering needs as a single entity,…
Yinan Guo Receives PE License
Structural designer Yinan Guo received her California civil engineer license on June 22, 2021. She is experienced in finite element analysis, stress and fatigue analysis, crane and wharf seismic interaction analysis, and crane seismic analysis. She has worked on several wharf projects, including performing girder and pile calculations. When we asked Yinan what she did to celebrate, she said, “I…
Anna’s Gingerbread Crane
Liftech structural engineer Anna Dix spent part of her holiday making a gingerbread crane. It is modeled after the ZPMC low profile container cranes she worked on that were recently delivered to Port Everglades in Florida (see Liftech’s related News post here: https://www.liftech.net/largest-low-profile-ship-to-shore-cranes-arrive-at-port-everglades-florida/. In real life, they are the largest ever of this type of crane. The boom on this…