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World's Largest Heavy-duty Crane Ship Delivered in Shanghai

18 June 2022
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2022-06-18 09:44

A crane ship with the world's largest deadweight tonnage was delivered on Wednesday to its owner, the Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company (Chipolbrok).

Construction was completed 5 months ahead of schedule. The handover ceremony was held in Shanghai and Jiangyin via video.

"Yong Xing" is the last of the four 62,000-deadweight multi-purpose heavy-duty crane ships ordered by Chipolbrok.

As the world's largest multi-purpose heavy lift ship with the largest deadweight tonnage, the ship has a cargo hold of 27.36 meters wide and a maximum lifting capacity of 300 tons.

It can flexibly load various sizes of heavy equipment cargo, pulp cargo and various solid bulk cargo and containers can also be loaded. At present, the most common transport goods are mainly offshore wind turbines.

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