Konecranes Oyj - Company Announcement

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT

KONECRANES PLC  STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE  April 7, 2010 at 09.30 am               

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT                                                  

Konecranes Plc's Corporate Governance Statement for 2009 has been published as a
separate report and it can be viewed on company's website at www.konecranes.com > Corporate Governance.                                                         

KONECRANES PLC                                                                  

Miikka Kinnunen                                                                 
Director, Investor Relations                                                    


FURTHER INFORMATION                                                             
Miikka Kinnunen, Director, Investor Relations, Konecranes Plc,                  
tel. +358 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 9,800     
employees, in 545 locations in 43 countries. Konecranes is listed on NASDAQ OMX 
Helsinki Ltd (symbol: KCR1V).

Attachments:

konecranes_cg statement_2009.pdf