How do you unload a crane larger than the cranes you have?
A Chinese ship docked at the Conley Terminal in South Boston this morning carrying three big cranes that will let larger cargo ships dock at the terminal in South Boston once they're installed and operating later this year. Andrew Morrison captured the ship from the new Homewood Suites on Summer Street.
The cranes are part of an $850-million project to expand the capacity of the terminal - a project that has also included several years of dredging in Boston Harbor to carve out a deeper channel for "Panamax" ships - the largest that can currently traverse the Panama Canal.
The cranes came aboard the Zhen Hua 15 after a two-month voyage from Shanghai.
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I just read an article about
By redheadedjen
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 11:22am
I just read an article about how dredging for larger ships causes the tides to shift. They had to have dredged to allow those big ships in.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-tide-is-high-and-g...
Larger ships means increased
By Smelly Flounder
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 3:28pm
Larger ships means increased amounts of cargo shipments will also lead to more Massport jobs
Lotsa trucks.
By Rob
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 4:05pm
Lotsa trucks.
Tell ‘em
By emac
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 7:47pm
I know this great shortcut, it’s called Storrow Drive, fastest way out of town.
I'm going to assume
By ScottB
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 11:37am
FAA already has signed off on these plans. These cranes (and the container ships) will be right under the approaches for the 4s at Logan and the existing cranes already feel uncomfortably close when landing.
That came up ...
By adamg
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 12:24pm
And Massport moved the spot where it originally planned to put the new cranes so they wouldn't be under the flight path into Logan.
Seems a wee bit top heavy
By redlinerider
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 11:49am
How did that ship possibly stay upright during waves and swells on its trip here from Shanghai?
Ballast, lots of ballast
By HenryAlan (not ...
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 1:53pm
These big freighters have ballast tanks to adjust buoyancy and center of gravity. It may look unwieldy, but really no more so than a freighter with 10 levels of stacked containers. In each case, the ballast prevents tipping.
A very large amount of ballast
By ScottB
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 2:22pm
Would be my assumption.
Semi-submersible
By SamWack
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 2:37pm
I believe it’s semi-submersible, so they use water tanks below the waterline as ballast.
Do they need an even bigger
By Doug L
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 12:21pm
Do they need an even bigger crane to unload those? Where will it end???
They bring in a horde of King Kongs ...
By adamg
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 12:26pm
And then when the winter rolls around, they all freeze to death. Source.
a lot of very cool, very specialized equipment.
By Craiggles
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 2:08pm
here's a video:
https://gcaptain.com/offloading-giant-cranes-from-...
They also serve
By SamWack
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 2:33pm
The main thing I learned from watching that video is that to accomplish such a huge task it’s essential to have lots of people standing around doing nothing at all times.
... he said, posting at 2:30
By baustin
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 2:50pm
... he said, posting at 2:30 on a workday.
Quite a lot of jobs out there
By fungwah
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 3:48pm
where if things go wrong, you need people ready and able to help, but if things go right, they dont need to do anything.
These were huge
By Errr
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 12:26pm
I saw these on the horizon this morning one the run. It was really surreal. At a distance they kinda looked like a massive galleon.
Ginormous, even
By adamg
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 12:30pm
That looks like it's carrying
By jmeltzer
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 2:40pm
two very large guillotines and one not-so-large guillotine.
Cool! Boston is now a leader
By Rob
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 4:04pm
Cool! Boston is now a leader in StarGate technology!
Like a giant Erector Set
By anon
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 4:05pm
creating three huge erections on the waterfront.
Exactly why
By anon
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 2:54pm
there’s a deed restriction forbidding housing to be built on the old Edison plant. The beautiful people who will be buying luxury condos will be the same bitching about noise coming from the active port right behind their homes.
They moved them to Berth 10
By anon
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 6:24pm
Which is not inline with the runways, but even closer to the Edison development.
Stormy weather over the AT-ATs
By adamg
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 4:17pm
Pretty good, though the photo
By Rob
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 11:45pm
Pretty good, though the photo needs to be taken from a misty distance, like one of the airport runways.
I suggest an update of the George Takei version.
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