Megamax cranes almost ready for duty on the Delta waterfront

Two lumbering leviathans with Herculean strength have arrived from across the Pacific, and will be inching into Global Container Terminals Deltaport on Saturday.

The behemoths, which are part a $170-modernization project, can move mountains of containers from ships to rail cars and on to a waiting continent.

The pair of state-of-the-art structures, 52 metres high, were made in Shanghai, China, and are the first of six that GCT is bringing over in the next two years.

The ship-to-shore cranes fit into the Megamax category, which in maritime terms, is the biggest of the big.

“These are some of the largest, most technologically advanced cranes in the world. And they’ll

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