Building giants
6 November 2008Construction of the first units of Liebherr’s giant MTC 78000 ship crane is progressing well, as guests of the company saw on a tour of its Rostock, Germany, facility. The 78,000tm crane will lift 1,600t to 35m, and 600t at its 70m maximum reach.
The ship on which the first crane will be installed will arrive from Singapore in February 2009. The boom section, assembled in a single piece, will have been carried from nearby Lubmin by sea. The crane will be assembled on the ship in five lifts, using two LHM 600 harbour mobile cranes. The first crane is expected to be used on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, for a customer who declined to be named. The second will be mounted on a jack-up barge, for a German contractor. It will be working in the North Sea, building wind farms. Two more units have already been ordered.
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