Training programmes
We consider it part of our responsibility to provide you with the essential knowledge and expertise required for the correct operation and maintenance of your Liebherr container crane.
Our training programmes are developed in close partnership with relevant groups and are continually updated. Skilled trainers and field specialists deliver the required knowledge through theoretical and practical activities, preparing attendees for their current and future challenges.
Maintenance training
- Familiarity with maintenance and inspection schedules
- Understanding of all electrical and mechanical components
- Understanding of crane brake and hydraulic systems
- Awareness of various rope systems and maintenance
- Familiarity with crane management system, including redundant features, bypasses and error handling
- Competent to operate cranes from all control stations
- Understand how to engage and operate crane back-up drives, where applicable
- Awareness of safety features and operation
- Crane walkover detailing systems on a Liebherr container crane
- Maintenance and inspection schedule
- Reading and understanding schematics and drawings
- Main systems components
- Hydraulic systems
- Holding and back up brake systems
- Crane rope systems maintenance / inspection
- Control system architecture and network
- Handling crane management system, incl. bypass features and error diagnostics
- Ship-to-shore container cranes
- Stacking container cranes
- Germany
- Ireland
- South Africa
Operator training
- Ability to operate the crane safely and correctly
- Understanding crane HMI display
- Handling operational system error and operator help messages
- Awareness of safety features and operational requirements
- Enable/disable operational features
- Secure crane out of service
- Knowledge of crane layout including structure and components
- Introduction to crane, summary specification
- Safety elements, access/egress, and safety interlocks
- Crane operator stations, local and remote if applicable
- Automated assistant systems and cameras
- Practical crane operation
- Understand pre-start up checks
- Ship-to-shore container cranes
- Stacking container cranes
- Germany
- Ireland
- South Africa
Get in touch
For general enquiries please contact .
Our local contacts can be found below:
Training locations
- Ireland
- South Africa
- Germany

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd., Killarney
Established in 1958, Liebherr Container cranes was the first Liebherr factory outside of Germany. It is responsible within the Liebherr Group, for the worldwide marketing, design, manufacture, delivery, erection and servicing of ship to shore container cranes (STS), rail mounted gantry cranes (RMG) and rubber tyre gantry cranes (RTG). From our training centre in Killarney, our expert team of trainers and engineers deliver first class training to operators and engineers of all Liebherr container cranes.
- Available Languages: English

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd., Killarney
Established in 1958, Liebherr Container cranes was the first Liebherr factory outside of Germany. It is responsible within the Liebherr Group, for the worldwide marketing, design, manufacture, delivery, erection and servicing of ship to shore container cranes (STS), rail mounted gantry cranes (RMG) and rubber tyre gantry cranes (RTG). From our training centre in Killarney, our expert team of trainers and engineers deliver first class training to operators and engineers of all Liebherr container cranes.
- Available Languages: English
