CONVEYANCE OF KONECRANES PLC'S OWN SHARES ON 29th April 2010


CONVEYANCE OF KONECRANES PLC'S OWN SHARES ON 29th April 2010                    

Date: April 29, 2010                                                            
Other conveyance: Sale against contribution in kind                             
Share class: KCR1V                                                              
Amount: 12,000 shares                                                           

After the conveyance on April 29, 2010, the Company will continue to hold a     
total of 2,530,600 shares.                                                      


KONECRANES PLC                                                                  


Miikka Kinnunen                                                                 
Director, Investor Relations                                                    


FURTHER INFORMATION                                                             
Konecranes Plc                                                                  
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, tel. +358 (0)20 427 2050         


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NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd                                                         
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www.konecranes.com                                                              

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad     
range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards,  
ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting         
solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all    
makes. In 2009, Group sales totalled EUR 1,671 million. The Group has 9,600     
employees, at more than 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on  
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).