Newport News Shipbuilding has restored its name to the iconic and massive gantry crane that towers over the north end of the big Peninsula shipyard. The 233-foot-tall crane, dubbed “Big Blue,… ...

The crane will replace Newport News Shipbuilding’s 49-year-old green Goliath gantry crane at dry docks 10 and 11. The new crane is even bigger than the 1,050 ton crane in the North Yard ...

For years Newport News Shipbuilding has advertised the fact that one of its gantry cranes, now emblazoned with the company’s name, can out-lift all others in the Western Hemisphere. Big Blue ...

Actually, I was thinking a parachute might have come in handy as I was riding the elevator up one of the legs of the gantry crane at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay last week.

The lift tested the shipyard’s largest gantry crane, Big Blue, which was hoisting a few tons shy of its 1,050 metric ton capacity, which tops of all other gantries in the Western Hemisphere.

Over the weekend, crews lifted the girders for the shipyard's new Goliath gantry crane into place. The crane is 241 feet tall and weighs 315 metric tons. It will be taller than the shipyard's ...

The ordered Goliath gantry crane will more than double the lifting capacity, from 350 to 800 tons. The span will be 153 meters and the height 115 meters.

Goliath Gantry Crane Delivered to Meyer Turku The largest gantry crane in the Nordic countries was delivered to Meyer Turku shipyard by Finnish Konecranes. The goliath crane will be used to build ...

As well as needing to provide a 300 mm (~12 inch) channel between the panel sections for the gantry crane rollers to pass between on the front rail, a number of obstacles on the quayside, such as the ...

Guam Shipyard may begin the projects after all proper permitting, legal and board procedures are fulfilled, states a letter from Port General Manager Rory Respicio to Joseph Cruz, chairman of the ...

Guam Shipyard will dispose of the port's two decommissioned gantry cranes, and dispose of the port's partially sunk barge.