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Heaviest crane in the world
Record
11,000 t
12,125 tons
- Record holder
- Honghai Crane
What to remember
Completed in 2014 in Jiangsu, the Chinese Honghai Crane weighs 11,000 t. Built by the Chinese Honghua Group, this mobile gantry crane stands 150 m tall and 124 m wide.
Its lift capacity made it the largest movable gantry crane: it can raise 22,000 tonnes to a height of 65 m, twice its own mass.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of largest machines” (revision used 1375840589). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: M.Minderhoud, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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