Three of the world’s largest ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes are about to set sail from Cork Harbour in Ireland for the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Weighing some 6,000 tonnes in all, the three Liebherr cranes will each be 150 metres high when fully assembled on site at Maher Terminals after a sea voyage of ten days.
Unusually, the cranes are being transported partly assembled, as they will have to pass under the Bayonne Bridge connecting Bayonne in New Jersey with Staten Island, which has a clearance of 66 metres.
The upper structures – boom, beam and A-frame – will be shipped resting on the deck for the duration of the voyage.
Manufactured in Co Kerry, Ireland, these cranes will become the largest objects ever engineered in Ireland to be shipped out of the country.
