Reaching for the sky - port's mega new arrival
Published: 16:21, 05 June 2008
Updated: 14:09, 16 March 2021
At its full height of 113 metres it's taller than St Paul's or Canterbury Cathedral – and a stack of 21 male giraffes would struggle to look it in the eye.
Kent's biggest ever crane – a tower of shining blue metal – has arrived at the Thamesport container handling terminal in Medway.
The new ship-to-shore gantry crane was made in Shanghai – the world's largest cargo port – by the Zhenhua Port Machinery Company.
The enormous structure can reach right over the new ultra-large container ships - known as mega ships - that transport goods over the world's deepest shipping channels.
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