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4,000-Ton Girder For

World's Largest Gantry Crane

Delivered To Kockums Yard

The 607-foot girder hung over both ends of a floating dock for the trip from Copenhagen to Malmoe.

A 4,000-ton girder, 607 feet long, to

Kockums Shipyard in Malmoe, Sweden.

Set end on end, the girder would tower 47 feet above the Washington Monument. The beam will be lifted over 44 stories into the air to become the main element of the "Goliath" crane.

The new colossus, due to be put into opera- tion next March, will have a lift capability of 1,500 tons—and under some circumstances, 1,600 tons—as against the 800-ton maximum of the present Kockums gantry crane.

The gigantic machinery for raising, trans- porting, and lowering vast weights will be utilized .by Kockums to meet the world de- mand for increasingly larger oil tankers. Kock- ums, largest shipbuilder in Sweden, is current- ly turning out 255,000-ton 'tankers (VLCCs), and has orders for a new series of 355,000 tons.

The massive crane will have an overall height of 446 'feet, a lifting height of 344 feet, and a breadth of 571 feet between its railtracks.

When emplaced on its pinions overhead, the huge beam will be outfitted with the housing and 'auxiliary equipment needed to convert the 4,000-ton girder into a 7,000-ton crane.

The key girder has been two years in the making, requiring the coordinated efforts of major contractors in Germany, Denmark, and

Sweden.

Delivery of the monstrous girder was made from Copenhagen to Malmoe on a floating dock towed by four tugs across the Oresund

Strait. Tight timing was involved in the op- eration, since delivery of the beam had to be made immediately after the undocking of the 255,000-ton Sea Scout, a tanker being built by Kockums for the Salen Shipping Co. The girder will have to be lifted in place overhead this month to make way for Kockums' next tanker in production.

When completed, the Goliath crane and auxiliary machinery and facilities will have cost $27,000,000.

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Marine Inerting Eguipment

Establishes Subsidiary In U.S.

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Paul W. Roos, the president of the new cor- poration, states that the equipment qualifies for Maritime Administration subsidized ship- building contracts.

The parent company is a major supplier of marine inerting equipment in Europe and has 'been awarded the contract for generators on the first three El Paso LNG tankers, now un- der construction in France. will purify 100,000 gals, of water

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