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21st March 2024, 05:28 PM
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Re: Now this is going to be very expensive
#8 I worked in the ZPMC yard in Shanghai overseeing Manufacture of other products. It was an amazing operation. At that time ,2008 they built 1 crane per day rolled them on to the deck of the ship welded them to the deck and sailed away. There was about 30K employed in the yard which was sited on an island on the estuary of the Yangtze River . Safety left a lot to be desired and the staff worked very long hours some worked on site for about a year . Western industries could not compete as the rules and regulations in place in the west would prevent most of the work practices being allowed in our societies ( Rightly so ) .it is the only factory I have been in anywhere which had its own Mortuary. It also had its own Hotel and workers accommodation. Looks like the US and the wests quest for cheaper goods has bitten them in the derrière .
Doug
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22nd March 2024, 01:32 AM
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Re: Now this is going to be very expensive
#10 And the plic is for the Cok who runs it. ? JS
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1st April 2024, 05:28 AM
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Re: Now this is going to be very expensive
Don't think three cranes will be anything like as expensive as a bridge in Baltimore. Wouldn't like to be the one trying to explain that little incident away even if you didn't have any control over engine/power failure. What must the ship's bridge crew have felt like when they saw that lot start to collapse?
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3rd April 2024, 06:13 PM
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Re: Now this is going to be very expensive
When I started as pilot in Swansea it was pointed out to me the difference in warehouse roof colours. Some years previously a ship had come alongside at an angle causing the bow to strike a drydock crane which collapsed onto the adjacent warehouse roof. Some things are better learned by example and this was one of them!
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4th April 2024, 12:46 AM
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Re: Now this is going to be very expensive
Hi Julian.
My brother pulled down one of the biggest warehouses in Swansea, he only had a small crew, but thank good not off a ship, he worked for a destruction Co.
Cheers Des
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