This Thursday, March 12, at approximately 2:00pm PDT, the ZPMC vessel Zhen Hua 22 carried the Left Coast Lifter under the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge. The Left Coast Lifter is a barge mounted shear leg crane with a maximum lift capacity of 1700 metric tons and will be used by American Bridge/Fluor in the completion of the new San Francisco – Oakland Self Anchored Span.
The Zhen Hua 22 carrying the Left Coast Lifter
The Zhen Hua 22 passes under the Golden Gate Bridge carrying the Left Coast Lifter
McKay, Liftech, and Siver Engineering were retained by American Bridge/Fluor JV to assist with the design, manufacturing review, and testing of the Left Coast Lifter.
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Updated the original post to include some more links to news articles. The San Francisco Chronicle article has several minutes of raw footage shot from their helicopter.