Chinese heavy machinary delivered to UK for building HMS Queen Elizabeth

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Cranes Today - ZPMC's new goliath stands tall at Rosyth

Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery, Chinese heavy industry manufacturer, has delivered a goliath gantry crane, to the Firth of Forth in Rosyth, Scotland.

The new crane, with a height of 68m to the bottom of the beams and a lifting capacity of 1,000t, will be used for the assembly of the aircraft carriers belonging to the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth Class in Rosyth Dockyard.

Babcock, a British engineering support firm, project-managed the $20m project and oversaw delivery after a 14,000 nautical mile sea voyage from Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery in China.

Lloyds Register Asia, IMES, Oceaneering and Bureau Veritas China had a hand in the project.

Before the crane was transported, rails had been pre-assembled on a foundation consisting of concrete foundation beams and 380 piles that reach into bedrock.

The girder and topmost sections of the legs were also pre-assembled. The crane will be completely erected on the ship in six weeks, before it is winched onto the rails.

Sean Donaldson, aircraft construction project director for Babcock, said, “After watching the Goliath crane being fabricated, it will be fantastic to see it arrive in the Firth of Forth and welcome it to its new home in Rosyth. The Goliath crane is an essential element in Babcock’s commitment to completing the assembly of the HMS Queen Elizabeth and the HMS Prince of Wales.”

The crane will undergo testing for four months before its handover to Aircraft Carrier Alliance Programme in the summer. It is scheduled to begin working in September of this year.

Fighting nuclear meltdown in Japan and building aircraft carriers in the UK, products of the booming Chinese heavy industries are making their way around the world.

Moving up the value chain, one step at a time!

 

[ChinaToday]

great news go china go

 

[acetophenol]

thats a great achievement for china!:clap:

 

[DV RULES]

Good progressive development in heave industry of China, China shows worth of its heavy industry worldwide.

 

[ViXuyen]

What is the heaviest lifting crane China has ever built?

 

[tanlixiang28776]

After selling off several older carriers, Great Britain has begun building their next generation replacements, starting with the HMS Queen Elizabeth. Too big to build all in once place, the ship is actually being build all over the U.K., and then assembled like a bunch of Lego bricks.

The Queen Elizabeth is going to be the largest aircraft carrier Britain has ever built, but it's still going to be only about two-thirds as large as the U.S.'s Nimitz class carrier. To put it all together, pieces will be constructed at six different shipyards around Britain, and then sent by barge to a single assembly point where a giant crane, specially shipped in from China, will stick everything together until the ship is finished.



Unlike its predecessors, the Queen Elizabeth won't be home to a squadron of Harriers, but instead will initially field 12 F-35 Lightning IIs (the carrier version, not the VTOL version), although it can hold up to 36 aircraft. At a cost of about £5 billion, the carrier won't likely be ready for action until 2020 or so.

 

[yangtomous]

What is the heaviest lifting crane China has ever built?

20000t in YanTai raffles ship yard.it called TaiShan.
CIMC RAFFLES

 

[nomi007]

that's great......................

 

[SHENSHOU]

Fighting nuclear meltdown in Japan and building aircraft carriers in the UK, products of the booming Chinese heavy industries are making their way around the world.

Moving up the value chain, one step at a time!

you have a very short memory. China and the Indian subcontinent were at the top of the food chain before being brought down by the gwailos with malice. i dont know what China is thinking making this crane for them. it's like making the bullet that will be used to shoot you. same thing goes for all these Chinese buying iphones. they dont know what time it is

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

you have a very short memory. China and the Indian subcontinent were at the top of the food chain before being brought down by the gwailos with malice. i dont know what China is thinking making this crane for them. it's like making the bullet that will be used to shoot you. same thing goes for all these Chinese buying iphones. they dont know what time it is

Hahaha, do you guys say that over there as well?

 

[kawaraj]

why china is help the west in beefing up their military? that part does not make sense.

 

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why china is help the west in beefing up their military? that part does not make sense.

cuz unlike pakistan, china is not emotional country. they have very well engaged pakistan against west and India and in the process China itself increasing trade and business with both

 

[wind]

you have a very short memory. China and the Indian subcontinent were at the top of the food chain before being brought down by the gwailos with malice. i dont know what China is thinking making this crane for them. it's like making the bullet that will be used to shoot you. same thing goes for all these Chinese buying iphones. they dont know what time it is

Image buildup. China is conveying a message that they also have alot to offer in return to what they take from west.

 

[harpoon]

Image buildup. China is conveying a message that they also have alot to offer in return to what they take from west.

No offense to Chinese, but when this crane was being built the wealthy Chinese may have bought more than 20 million dollar worth of British luxury cars, clothes and booze.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

No offense to Chinese, but when this crane was being built the wealthy Chinese may have bought more than 20 million dollar worth of British luxury cars, clothes and booze.

We have the biggest trade surplus in the world.

Which means that we export FAR more than we import.