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Crane vessels are often used in offshore construction. The largest revolving cranes can be found on SSCV Sleipnir, which has two cranes with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes (11,023 short tons; 9,842 long tons) each.
An overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in industrial environments. An overhead crane consists of two parallel rails seated on longitudinal I-beams attached to opposite steel columns by means of brackets. The traveling bridge spans the gap. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels along the bridge.
A ring crane is a form of large construction crane with a luffing jib. It is distinguished by its slew pivot [i] being in the form of a ring-shaped track, rather than a narrow central spindle. The broad base this gives to the slewing section above allows it to slew whilst carrying extremely heavy loads. Ring cranes are rare.
Container cranes were used from the 1950s and onwards, and made containerization possible. Nowadays such is the importance of this machinery, some transport companies have developed specific equipment to transport heavy construction equipment to and from sites.
JUPITER — A construction worker at the U.S. 1 bridge site in Jupiter sustained traumatic injuries in a fall Monday night, leading crews to use an on-site crane to rescue him, Palm Beach County ...
A construction crane toppled into an office housing the news outlet, the Tampa Bay Times, leaving a massive hole in the side of the building during violent winds from Hurricane Milton.
Taisun, the world's strongest gantry crane, at Yantai Raffles Shipyard, Yantai, China. Full gantry cranes (where the load remains beneath the gantry structure, supported from a beam) are well suited to lifting massive objects such as ships' engines, as the entire structure can resist the torque created by the load, and counterweights are generally not required.
A construction worker has been killed and three other people have been injured after a portion of a crane fell onto a Fort Lauderdale bridge on Thursday afternoon.. The construction crew was ...