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gantry cranes

n. (gantry crane English)

Usage examples of "gantry cranes".

It was as dark as a tomb, the rain was still sluicing down and at first I could see nothing except the vague suggestion of one or two angular structures that looked like gantry cranes.

She extended some twelve decks from keel to upper deck, and was surmounted by a veritable clutter of low deck houses, massive derricks, and scores of gantry cranes-with a massive, overhung bridge placed close enough to her bows that she actually took on a brooding visage.

The ship had barely been tied up when the gantry cranes started moving cargo.

Rising behind the piers was a sprawling complex of industrial buildings, gantry cranes, big straddle carriers and cargo derricks.

What we need are machine shops, gantry cranes big enough to change Drive crystals, gravity pads.

Rusting donkey engines rested ghostlike on darkened tracks beneath old-fashioned gantry cranes that could still lift whole Drive sections from their chambers.

On the field there were a couple of large gantry cranes, a rocket pad, three warehouses, a truck garage, and a dormitory.

For years, a stream of public funds was routed through a company called Fiscal Operations, which controls the port's gantry cranes.

The only visible horizon seemed to be made from warehouses and loading bays, where a spidery gridwork of gantry cranes and container stackers wove through every section of the big open structures.

The cars were parked under one of the gantry cranes used for transferring cargo containers, and five officers walked quietly to the ship's accommodation ladder.