Loading a slow job
The exacting job of loading a 450-tonne container crane on to a heavy-load ship at Lyttelton yesterday took almost 12 hours.
The 40 metre-high Samba crane could be moved at a maximum speed of only 60cm a minute, otherwise its carrier, the heavy-load vessel, Snimos King, could not compensate for the extra weight. “You just cannot rush 450 tonnes,” said the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s foreman rigger, Mr Tony Ashmore.
The loading of the Samba, with two other cranes pushing and two pulling, started about 7 a.m. yesterday.
. Conditions were ideally calm. “Everything has progressed according to plan,” said Mr Ashmore. It is expected to take another 30 hours for the Samba crane to -be welded to the decks of the ship, making it part of her superstructure.
The Snimos King is scheduled to sail for Auckland and Nagasaki about 8 p.m. today.
The Samba crane was used at Lyttelton for about six months as a stand-in for the port’s own container crane, which was damaged in a berthing accident in Feburary, 1985.
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