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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