As an example of ALE's ingenuity, Harries is proud of
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the fact that the corn recently built the world's largest shore-based crane, the 4,300-tonne SK19( "We spoke to various customers about the feasibility of building some sort super-crane; a machine capable of lifting the heaviest loads on e They all came back and said yes, giving us specific weights an dimensions of vessels they wanted to lift on future proj( In effect, it was our customers who set the design criteria," Harries recalls. After approaching a num of the world's largest crane manufacturers, it bec apparent the solution was once again an in-hou: one. "They all wanted to offer the products they already have, not the ones they don't," he says bluntly. The figures the SK190 trots out are staggering: the whole thing breaks down into 40ft containers, the same containers 'We loa stack on a platform and use as ballast". Not resting on any kind of laurels, ALE alrea has plans for the SK19as bigger successor.