Meet the world’s tallest/biggest tower crane. If you like looking up at the Zifeng Tower in Nanjing, you’ll like this! Because it’s almost as tall. And as of now, it’s helping in our efforts to bring greater efficiency to our transportation across the Yangtze River Delta.
Yes, China is back in the construction headlines, this time for the Changtai Yangtze River Bridge in our very own Jiangsu Province. That is record breaking on its own (read on for that), but the crane assisting in the effort is monumental.
Specifically, it’s the XFT15000-600S that’s responsible. And it ranks as the world’s largest tower crane. That’s on account of its maximum-lifting height of 400 metres. It can also lift a maximum of weight of 600 tonnes, reports Our Jiangsu. Imagine that over your head in Gulou.
The crane is a product of XCMG, the biggest company in northern Jiangsu’s Xuzhou City, that is also the largest provider of construction machinery in China and the third largest in the world.
According to a press release by XCMG, the crane, which can withstand a level-12 typhoon in a non-working state, was designed to meet the increasing demand for large-scale modular bridge construction development.
Jointly developed by XCMG and China Major Bridge Engineering Co., Ltd., the release also goes on to reveal that the Changtai Yangtze River Bridge is the world’s largest diamond-type, cable-stayed bridge.
The Changtai Yangtze River Bridge, connecting the cities of Changzhou and Taizhou, will shorten journey time between the two to about half an hour.
Thanks in part to the crane, the Bridge, with the world’s longest road and rail cable-stayed span, at 1,176 metres, remains on track to open next year.
The Bridge is one of not less than four new cross-Yangtze transportation links in Jiangsu Province which local authorities are prioritising for 2023.
