The Bay Area is picking up tons of shipping business thanks to new giant cranes at the Port of Oakland, which are doing some heavy lifting during the current global supply-chain crisis.

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The giant cranes were constructed in China, by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., and sent on a ship in sections to the Port of Oakland. Longshore workers then rolled the cranes off the vessel ...

OAKLAND — Three giant cranes from China sailed under the Bay ... weigh about 1,500 tons each and can stretch as high as 324 feet, said Port of Oakland spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur.

OAKLAND, Calif. - When three giant cranes were delivered to the Port of Oakland in March 2021, they were touted as the largest ship-to-shore cranes in North America, a towering marvel that would ...

The Port of Oakland handled more than 2 million ... of cargo containers on freighters being offloaded 24/7 by those giant cranes seen from the Bay Bridge and Alameda. Seeing the operation up ...

The three cranes ... country's eighth busiest container port to handle giant ships that use the it (in April the MSC Anna was the largest container ship ever to call at Oakland).

The Port of Oakland no longer needs the "low-profile" cranes, which were used when the Alameda Naval Air Station was in service to accommodate flight-path safety issues, according to Port authorities.

The half-dozen giant cranes that once lifted huge containers of goods on 160 acres of East Bay waterfront now lie dormant. And the Port of Oakland is pretty OK with that. In fact, the agency ...