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Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited (, ) is a Chinese state-owned multinational

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company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of

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and large

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structures.

History

The company was founded in 1992. It is the

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company of China Communications Construction Group (CCCG). It specializes in designing, manufacturing, erecting, commissioning, shipping in fully erected state, after-sales servicing and developing new port machinery products. Its main products include

container crane A container crane (also container handling gantry crane or ship-to-shore crane) is a type of large dockside gantry crane found at container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships. Container cranes consis ...

s (QCs) (supplied eight for

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), rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs), bulk-material ship loaders and unloaders, bucket-wheel stackers and reclaimers, portal cranes, floating cranes engineering vessels and large steel bridge structures. ZPMC was listed on the

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for A share and B share. The net assets of ZPMC have reached USD 450 million. On 8 June 2009, the company rebranded itself as Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. The company also developed complete terminals including the bulk cargo terminal at Lanqiao port in

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. Cranes for the Abu Dhabi's new Khalifa Port were also built by ZMPC. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LGKOMVZjCQg

San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

The company is the fabricator of the new Bay Bridge located in the

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in the USA. Although the company had no previous experience in bridge construction, California officials selected it based on the advantages of "huge steel fabrication facilities, its large low-cost work force and its solid finance." The project employed 3,000 workers who built a main bridge tower and completed 28 bridge decks.

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