Goliath crane is leaving (US jobs to Romania)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.wickedlocal.com/braintree/news/x621358683/Goliath-crane-is-leaving

By Robert Aicardi
Fri Jan 30, 2009, 12:59 PM EST

Braintree - If all goes as planned, Goliath, the largest gantry crane in North America and a long-time Quincy landmark, will be shipped to Romania in less than two weeks.

Crews at the former Fore River Shipyard are expecting to send the 328-foot-tall crane off on Feb. 15, according to Michael Emerson, an engineer for Seattle-based Norsar LLC, the company in charge of dismantling Goliath.

In the meantime, various sections of the crane are on a mobile platform near the area where a barge – 400 feet long and 100 feet wide – will carry them out of Boston Harbor and across the Atlantic.

A second barge will follow, filled with equipment for the crane and its reassembly.

Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries, a subsidiary of South Korea-based Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, purchased Goliath and is moving it to its shipbuilding site.

Goliath was built in 1974 and 1975, towering over the skyline for all entering Quincy from the south and west and serving as a beacon for boaters coming in from the east.

General Dynamics built Goliath to place 120 feet in diameter storage spheres for liquefied natural gas onto tanker hulls.

FULL story at link.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. My my.... isn't she a huge one.... geez, what a loss.

[madrchsod]

2. not quite as big but...

a five year old overhead track crane at the 24in mill shipping dept was cut up for scrap because they could`t find a buyer when northwestern steel and wire was closed..

a five year old overhead track crane cut up for scrap.

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. The shipyard closed in 1986- the crane has been idle since then

The jobs left a quarter of a century ago.

[Omaha Steve]

4. With the crane gone

There is no chance of some company starting it back up in the USA.