The capsizing of “Eastern Star” luxury cruise liner not only arouse the national concern, but touched the hearts of Haixin shipyard‘s employees .Currently,the1000T revolving floating crane has entered into the key stage of undocking, which is owned by Yangtze River Waterway Bureau and being built by Haixin shipyard. In view ofensuring the national investment benefiting the nation and the people as well as servingfor the waterway security business of Yangtze River as early as possible, Haixin shipyard spared no efforts to speed up the production process to ensure the schedule of completion.
Nowadays, the crane’sfoundationbarrel has been installed and positioned smoothly. On June 10th, the darkness was fallingwhen the 1300 T floating crane arrived at the water area ofHaixinshipyard. Thestaffs of Haixin shipyard finished all the preparationwork and immediately put into the tense work under the nightupon the arrival of the crane.Thelifting work lasted for nearly onehour, after that the barrel weighting 300 tonnageswastransferred from the crane to shore and eventually safely landed in the assemblyplatform. On June 11th,under the stable lifting of 400 T gantry crane, the barrel was successfully lifted on the crane deck, with which the installation accuracy was controlled within the limits of design requirementsafter the positioning and correction.One employee who participated in this lifting work said: “this lifting work provides us a favorable opportunity for testing the loading performance of 400T gantry crane”. The crew commended that Haixin shipyard has stepped into a new phase of shipbuilding.