One of the world’s biggest cranes in action at Gull Wing bridge

One of the biggest crawler cranes in the world has been set up in Lowestoft for the arrival of the first steel sections for the southern side of the Gull Wing bridge.
The huge crane was in place for when South Approach Viaduct (SAV) sections weighing up to 381 tonnes each arrived at the construction site on Lake Lothing on Sunday evening on a barge from Ghent in Belgium.
The Terex Demag CC8800-1 has a maximum lifting capacity of 1,600 tonnes and is one of the largest crawler cranes in the world.