Worlds Largest Crane In Action
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WORLD’s LARGEST CRANE “TAISUN” gned and built by Yantai Raffles Shipyard in Yantai, China Total capacity 20,000 ton (Guinness World Record TM ) Height under beam 115 meter (more than soccer field) Span 120 meter (more than soccer field) Front columns 30 stories high Wire length 50 kilometers Total weight 200,000 ton deemed “impossible” by many now in action
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20000 ton crane TAISUN seen in action assembling the COSL Pioneer semisubmersible in November 2008
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WORLD’s LARGEST CRANE “TAISUN”Designed and built by Yantai Raffles Shipyard in Yantai, China
Total capacity 20,000 ton (Guinness World RecordTM)Height under beam 115 meter (more than soccer field)
Span 120 meter (more than soccer field)Front columns 30 stories high
Wire length 50 kilometersTotal weight 200,000 ton
deemed “impossible” by manynow in action
14,000 ton deck box liftThe same as 10,000 VW Golf cars, equivalent to the total output of the VW factory with nearly 100,000 employees in five days
RAISE DECK BOX TO 30 METEREquivalent to raising 10,000 VW Golfs 10 stories high. In order to do this, the crane feeds directly from the power grid of 10,000 Volt
move out barge(and take some beautiful photos)
keep deck box(and take more pictures)
collect the hullNote the guys standing on the bow
push hull under deck boxcomfort the rather nervous tug captain
position hull under deck boxget ready to write shipbuilding history
lower and install the deck box..and transform the way offshore vessels are built,
for good
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WORLD’SBIGGESTCRANE
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CHINESE CHARACTER
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AVERAGE SIZED MANnow too small to see
WORLD’s LARGEST CRANE “TAISUN”Designed and built by Yantai Raffles Shipyard in Yantai, China
Total capacity 20,000 ton (Guinness World RecordTM)
