“The unparalleled lifting capacity of our M2480D HLL cranes have been a game changer for this project and will potentially change the way our industry looks at how bridges can be built, as well as a host of other large scale projects. We are using the same way of thinking to challenge methodology on the construction of other projects, including metro train stations, data centres, large commercial construction, energy construction and working refineries.”
For Marr Contracting, the record-breaking lift is one of a number of engineering feats completed by The Men From Marr’s on the construction of the Turkish bridge project.
In November 2019, after being fully assembled at a dry dock, two of Marr’s M2480D HLL cranes were lifted as complete units, each weighing 600t, by a floating crane and transported a kilometre to the bridge tower caisson in the middle of the Dardanelles (Çanakkale Strait), where they were successfully installed in a one day operation.
Mustafa Tanriverdi, CEO of the joint-stock company established by the Turkish-Korean consortium, ÇOK A.Ş., praised the collaboration on the project.
“The four joint venture partner companies (Limak and Yapı Merkezi from Turkey, Daelim and SK E&C from South Korea) are contributing to the project by allocating their particular technical expertise acquired from working on diverse projects across the world to all phases of the project. With such strong historical links between Turkey and Australia, we are delighted to have an Australian team contributing their expertise and innovative thinking to this important nation-building project,” he concludes.
