The Dinosaur crane graveyard

I have almost finished my 11 week trip to Ulsan Korea, to the biggest shipyard in the world, it builds on average 150 large ships a year and they are huge tankers and bulk carriers mostly, to build these monster ships you need monster cranes of all types, Hyundai managed to buy the worlds largest gantry crane froma bankrupt shipyard in Sweden, it is 138 meters tall, and can lift 1600 tons, it is so huge as to be beyond scale of description

http://youtu.be/B99bxId08TE

here is the video of it being moved to Korea, they managed to pay only $1 for it at auction but they had to pay to move it of course.

they also have these enormous 800 ton crawler cranes and tower cranes all over




how many cranes, just too many













perhaps they have too many, the shipyards here have built so many ships the crisis is making it difficult for them to make money, all the contractors have been laid off and they have slowed down the building to keep the main employees in work, we will see if they have built too many ships