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Tallest gantry crane
Record
138 m
453 ft
- Record holder
- Kockums Crane
What to remember
Before it reached Ulsan, South Korea, the Kockums Crane (Kockumskranen in Swedish) was used at the Kockums shipyard in Malmö, Sweden. It stands in the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard and measures 138 m, or 453 feet, higher than any other gantry crane on record.
It was built in 1974 and is movable.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “Tallest structures by category” (revision used 1378771440). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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