World's Largest Ship Elevator Opens at Three Gorges Dam in Central China

Published 6 years ago in Technology. Submitted by thundersnow

The world's largest ship elevator at the Three Gorges Dam opened in Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province, on Sunday, with a prospect to increase the shipping capacity past the dam by six million tons a year.
The elevator, the existing largest lifting structure on a navigation route with the highest technical difficulty of the world, features large engineering scope, high lifting height and large weight lifting operation.
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