by Crane Market | Aug 13, 2018 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News
The Baltimore Museum of Industry (BMI) today announced a call for the public’s help in the final step of transforming the original 100-foot-tall shipyard crane that overlooks the museum’s waterfront campus entrance. The museum is asking neighbors, residents and...
by Crane Market | Aug 8, 2018 | Crane & Lifting News, Ports & Terminals
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – The Newport News skyline just changed. Over the weekend, the shipyard lifted part of its new crane into place. Workers lifted the girders of the new 315-metric-ton Goliath gantry crane on Saturday, August 4. The new crane is 241 feet...
by Crane Market | Apr 6, 2017 | Crane & Lifting News
The historic 80 ton crane, commissioned by shipbuilder JS White in 1912, towers about Medina Yard. It is an iconic structure that has recently been undergoing renovation. The crane jib has been moved inland, so that scaffolding can be erected underneath it. Urgent...
by Crane Market | Feb 9, 2017 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Offshore News
A crane bought for £1m as part of a vision to revolutionize the Tyneside shipyards has lain unused and in pieces for more than three years, we can reveal today. The machine was bought in early 2013 by cash-strapped North Tyneside Council , which pledged to use it to...
by Crane Market | Jun 6, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News
The Baltimore Museum of Industry is doing some restoration on a WWII era crane that sits at its entrance. The Bethlehem Steel Key Highway Shipyard Crane at the Baltimore Museum of Industry is a Clyde Whirley Crane was built in 1942. It was installed on Pier 3 of the...