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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Joshua Taylor

What was that HUGE ship sailing down the Mersey?

This pictures show a giant ship carrying five super-size cranes arriving in the Port of Liverpool after a six-week voyage across the world.

The 760ft-long Zhen Hua ship set off from a dock in Nantong, China, in mid-March and was seen off the coast of Crosby today.

The ship was carrying six cranes that will be used on the £300m Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal construction project.

The scheme, being led by Peel Ports, aims to deepen the Mersey estuary so it can accommodate some of the biggest boats in the world.

Watch: Drone Footage of Liverpool2 cranes arriving into Liverpool

Another Zhen Hua ship – so-called because they are named after the Chinese crane manufacturer – previously visited in Liverpool in November last year to deliver the first five cranes for use in the Liverpool2 project.

The images show the Iron Men statues along Crosby beach and the offshore wind turbines.

A total of eight ship-to-shore ‘megamax’ cranes and 22 cantilever rail-mounted gantry cranes are being supplied to Peel Ports as part of Liverpool2.

Each crane measures 92m high to the top of the frame, approximately the same as Liverpool’s Royal Liver Building, and 132m high when the boom is raised.

Each crane weighs around 1,600 tonnes.

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