This gigantic crane is mounted – somehow – onto a ship, the Seaway Alfa Lift operated by Seaway7 and can lift 3000 tonnes. The boom is normally lowered and stowed flat over the bow but it was undergoing some kind of maintenance while in port. I tried to capture it juxtapositioned with the gantry crane in…
Tag: North Sea Canal
#630 – North Sea Canal industrial landscape 1 – IJmuiden Steelworks
In my last post, I talked about a photo taken from a ship leaving Southampton, and these are taken the following day as we approached the coast of Holland. The smoke from the chimneys of IJmuiden Steelworks was visible some miles out to see, and as we got closer the unmistakeable cluttered skyline of the…
Mechanical Landscapes 