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Tian-e, a floating crane with 41 spans on 42 pillars on the Padma Bridge, left Mawa Construction Yard in Munshiganj’s Louhjong Upazila for China around 9:30 am today. You will return to your destination through the Chittagong port. It may take a month and a half to reach China.
Padma Bridge engineer Ariful Islam confirmed the matter to The Daily Star on Sunday.
He said the floating crane ‘Tian-e’ left for China without any arrangement. In front of the crane is a display of the Chinese national flag. The crane’s white cables are untied before exiting.
He added that one of the most difficult tasks in the construction of the bridge was placing the span on the piers. However, due to the floating crane, there were no major difficulties in placing the spans. Laying a span didn’t even have to be a minor accident. Jazira used to take the Mawa stage the day before to put the stage on the pillars at the end. Then it was placed on the pillar the next day. And most of the pillars at the end of Mawa are placed in one day.
It is worth mentioning that each section installed on the Padma Bridge is 150 meters long and weighs 3,200 tons. And the world’s largest floating crane ‘Tian-e’ has been placed on these pillars of light. The crane has a load capacity of four thousand tons. This floating crane has brought the span from Mawa Construction Yard and placed it on the piers located on the Padma River. There is no other large floating crane on earth. This floating crane arrived in Bangladesh from China in October 2016. It took four years and two months to install the span on the Padma Bridge. The crane began work on September 30, 2016, placing the first span on the bridge.
