A spreader can be used on a container crane, a straddle carrier and with any other machinery to lift containers.

A second container berth and two more container cranes were added in the early 1970s.

Container cranes consist of a supporting framework that can traverse the length of a quay or yard on a moving platform called a spreader.

Container cranes were used from the 1950s and onwards, and made containerization possible.

Vessels are loaded and unloaded by container cranes, designed specifically for the task.

This allows the vessel to lift cargoes from barges much faster than if just the crane hoists are used.

As night falls, a crane hoists a black car out of the lake.

The crane hoists steel into place, and the ironworkers position the beams in place with spud wrenches to align bolt holes.

A crane lifts the room into place, then hooks and thick steel cables attach it to the 'host' facade - the cables are the straps that give the structure its nickname.

Blocks are then labeled with computer chips and a special crane lifts and inserts them in the correct sequence.

A crane lifts the containers from the trucks into the ship.

Other services include rigging and gantry crane lifts.

Witnesses said that the crane operator had been unable to move the vehicle across the tracks before the level crossing barriers came down.

He works long hours as a crane operator and when he gets tired we sometimes bicker a bit.

The crane operator did not remember getting into his car, could not stand and was unable to give a breath test.

A crane operator will be stationed at the base.

The post was that of crane operator at the docks, earning 48,000 a year with short working hours and long holidays.

The entire slipway could be retracted into the ship, and a gantry crane ran the length of the slipway to help recover the seaplanes.

Hatch covers for holds are opened and closed by mean of gantry crane.

The gantry crane has two three-ton auxiliary cranes.

An original 50-ton gantry crane remains in the main lobby.

A massive latticework gantry crane protruded aft from the hangar roof and a twin-boom derrick forward to handle her aircraft.

This time, the requisite diving platform was slightly more mundane: a giant crane hanging over the harbour.

A giant crane was needed to lift him out in an operation that took seven hours earlier this month.

The 175,000 vessel eventually had to be hoisted by a giant crane over their house.

They were winched in over her house by a giant crane.

Large sections were lifted by giant crane and slid onto the pillars.

There's even a hydraulic crane for lifting your boat.

He claimed that his hydraulic crane could unload ships faster and more cheaply than conventional cranes.

He was responsible for the development of the hydraulic crane and many military armaments.

The crane bay gets its name from two large yellow hydraulic cranes on rails above the room, which move heavy equipment around.

The company initially manufactured household appliances, moving its focus to agricultural equipment in 1950, intercoolers in 1956, and hydraulic cranes in 1968.

I watched a mobile crane doing its work, its caterpillar tracks deep in the sludgy channel.

Locals refused to say who carried out the prank but revealed one had their mobile crane borrowed for a night.

Modules are usually installed and replaced by a 15-ton capacity mobile crane.

It entered service early the following year, as a shunter and mobile crane no.

The truss was launched in segments in a synchronised lift with two mobile crane units.

I train the binoculars on a single worker in a high-visibility jacket operating a crane far below and cannot pull myself away.

He meets families living in a scrapyard and spends a happy afternoon operating the cranes.

Instead, he operates the crane and destroys the door.

Is it right that they would need the express permission of all the adjacent homeowners to use an overhead crane?

Member companies represent industry leaders in the overhead crane market.

The interior of the addition was originally a wide, open space with an overhead crane similar to the one in the original machine shop.

This feature meant that the batteries could be changed without using an overhead crane in a lifting shop, freeing it for more important work.

The workers were using an overhead crane, parked under the railways electric power lines.