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May 15 - The Detroit Free Press celebrated Michigan Week with a compilation of facts about Michigan's ranking in various fields, including the following: first in the country with 2,200 miles of shoreline (in addition to 11,000 lakes and 36,000 miles of streams); per capita earnings of $1,949 ($404 above the national average); family spending ...
In transportation, heavy lift refers to the handling and installation of heavy items which are indivisible, and of weights generally accepted to be over 100 tons and of widths/heights of more than 100 meters. These oversized items are transported from one place to another (sometimes across country borders), then lifted or installed into place.
A further proposed refinement of the V-16 with two 15,000 kW (20,000 hp) Soloviev D-30V (V - Vertolyotny - helicopter) turboshafts driving six bladed rotors, to transport 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) over 500 km (310 mi) or 40,000 kg (88,000 lb) over 200 km (120 mi). The Mi-12M was cancelled at the mock-up stage when the V-12 development programme was ...
The entrance to Muskegon Lake from Lake Michigan. The name "Muskegon" is derived from the Ottawa mashkiigong, meaning "marshy river or swamp". [9] [10]The "Masquigon" River (Muskegon River) was identified on French maps dating from the late 17th century, suggesting French explorers had reached Michigan's western coast by that time.
Mighty Servant 3 is a 27,000-ton semi-submersible heavy lift ship.Its deck is 40 by 140 m (130 by 460 ft). The vessel was built in 1984 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Ōshima, Japan, for Dutch shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport, which merged in 1993 with Dock Express Shipping to become Breda-based offshore heavy lifting group Dockwise Shipping B.V.
Cargolifter AG was a German company founded in 1996 to offer logistical services through point-to point transport of heavy and outsized loads. This service was based on the development of a heavy lift airship , the CL160, a 550,000 m 3 (19,000,000 cu ft) vessel designed to carry a 160 t (160,000 kg; 350,000 lb) payload.
Mighty Servant 1 is a 29,000-ton heavy-lift ship capable of carrying very large vessels and offshore platforms.Built for Dutch shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport, which merged in 1993 with Dock Express Shipping to become Breda-based offshore heavy lifting group, Dockwise Shipping B.V. [3] Mighty Servant 1 carried structures such as oil rigs and floating drydocks. [4]
The floating barge-crane, originally named Marine Boss, was built for Murphy Pacific Marine.The barge was assembled by Zidell Explorations from scrapped ship steel in Oregon [2] in 1966 and fitted in San Francisco with a heavy 500-ton revolving crane made by Clyde Iron Works [3] to perform the heavy girder and deck-section lifts for construction of the 1967 San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.