r/Durban • u/MaxifyBenz • 13d ago
What's this monstrosity?
Look out on the horizon... Seems like a jacking platform or drilling rig with a crane.. but someone with more or better information, help us out.
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r/Durban • u/MaxifyBenz • 13d ago
Look out on the horizon... Seems like a jacking platform or drilling rig with a crane.. but someone with more or better information, help us out.
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u/NuffingNuffing 13d ago
That looks like a crane-delivery heavy-load ship—the kind that transports ship-to-shore (container) gantry cranes. The tall portal frames with the long booms tipped up for transit are the giveaway. These vessels (often the ZPMC “Zhen Hua” fleet) sail slowly near ports like Durban to deliver new container cranes to the terminals.