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in the

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. It was originally used at the Kockums

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History

It was built in 1973–74 and could lift . The

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of crane's rails was and the rail length . The crane was used to build about 75 ships. Its last use in Malmö was in mid-1997, when it lifted the foundations of the high pillars of the Öresund Bridge. The crane was first sold in the early 1990s to the Danish company

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but the company went bankrupt before the crane could be moved. The crane was a landmark of Malmö from its time of construction until its dismantling in the summer of 2002, when it was shipped to Ulsan, after being sold to Hyundai Heavy Industries for $1. – ("Tears of Malmoe", selling of the crane, Bloomberg 9 May 2007) The Koreans have dubbed the crane 말뫼의 눈물 (Tears of Malmö), because the residents of Malmö reportedly wept when they saw their crane being towed away.

Locations

Former location: ("Kockums Crane")
Today's location: ("Tears of Malmö") At Ulsan the crane is located on a tongue of land within the Bangeo-dong quarter right at the mouth of the

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. Additionally a second gantry crane with a lifting capacity of was subsequently erected nearby. The two cranes share a common working area. "Tears of Malmö" is the more southern of the two. (With lifting capacity of neighbor crane visible)

References

External links

* * (in Swedish) – (Kockums Crane becomes Hyundai Crane, pictures from South Korea, km-malmo.se) * (in Swedish) – (Malmö Shipyard History Association, pictures of the crane) * – (report on installation of crane at Ulsan, HHI 2004)
Video of the dismantling
on

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