Offloading Giant Cranes from a Ship – Here’s How It’s Done [VIDEO]
The arrival of 4 new Super Post-Panamax container cranes at the Port of Houston had lots of people questioning precisely how they’re going to offload the cranes from the deck of the heavy raise ship to dock.
Well, the reply is pretty easy: a mixture of wheels, rails and pulling. Just consider a practice on railroad tracks.
The beneath video exhibits precisely how they do it:
And as you’ll be able to see from the photograph beneath taken this week on the Port of Houston, crews are already laying down the tracks to unload the 1,500 ton cranes on the Barbours Cut Container Terminal. We’re instructed the offloading operation is predicted to start on Saturday and can take a couple of days.
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