Giant carrier assembled
The first of six contrainer straddle carriers is being pieced together at Lyttelton. The photograph shows it being assembled. Component parts for the giant carriers began arriving in Lyttelton earlier this week and engineers are now busy fitting them together like pieces in a massive meccano set.
The 35-foot-high carriers were designed in America
but have a 50 per cent local content. Local firms have done much of the structural work, and Australian contractors have supplied the machinery, some of which arrived in the Hawea on Tuesday.
The first carrier is expected to be ready at the end of August. More carriders should then be completed at a rate of about one a month until December.
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Press, 9 July 1976, Page 1
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