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Description: Construction of the biggest and strongest crane in the world, TAISUN. Designed and built by Yantai Raffles Shipyard and located in Yantai, Northern China. The crane marks a new era in offshore construction by allowing offshore vessels to be built in two halves that both can be built on the ground. Building vessels such as semisubmersibles or FPSO in two parts on the ground brings massive improvements in safety, quality, manpower efficiency and also overall project duration, but requires a crane bigger than the world has ever seen, and this video shows just exactly how that crane was built. The crane has won several awards, including the ASME Woelfel Best Mechnical Engineering Award, the OTC Spotlight on New Technology Award and a Guinness World Record for lifting the heaviest weight ever by a crane.