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Tadano lattice boom crawler completes big lifts on ports

Tadano’s CC 68.1250-1 lattice boom crawler crane has successfully completed a series of heavy lifts on the port of Marseille.

Operating on ‘Forme 10’ – one of the biggest dry docks in all of Europe – the Tadano machine was required to lift and place technical equipment onto the Saipem CastorOne: one of the world’s largest pipelaying ships.

Completing the lifts for international logistics company Vernazza Autogru, the Tadano replaced heavy pipelaying equipment on the ship including a 190-tonne DMA winch and six 200-tonne tensioners.

The largest lift, however, was reserved for a 500-tonne pipeline winch with a five-kilometre steel wire rope that needed to be lifted to a height of five metres in a 25-metre radius. General Director at Vernazza Autogru Paolo Delfino spoke of the employees’ amazement at seeing such a machine in action.

“Not a single one of the employees at the site had ever seen such an enormous crane in the flesh before – which maybe isn’t that surprising, given that our CC 68.1250‑1 is the biggest crane currently in use in France and Italy,” said Delfino.

“The lifting specifications also made it clear that only an extraordinarily powerful lattice boom crawler crane was going to be able to take care of the huge loads and large work radii.”

The CC 68.1250‑1’s size needed to be factored into the transportation of the crane, however, and needed to travel to France from the Italian city of La Spezia. Taking the maritime pathway, a 3,000-tonne barge was able to move the crane in four days, where a five-person team from Vernazza was waiting to set the crane up.

Configured with an 84-meter main boom and SSL with the complete superstructure and superlift counterweights enabling it to take care of all lifts safely, Delfino said the Tadano was reliable and efficient when it came to its operation.

“The CC 68.1250‑1 was the perfect choice for this ambitious job,” he said. “Once again, it has demonstrated its extraordinary manoeuvrability and precision.”

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