Pictures show a giant ship carrying five super-size cranes arriving in the Port of Liverpool after a six-week voyage across the world.<\/p>\n
The 760ft-long Zhen Hua<\/a> ship set off from a dock in Nantong, China, in mid-March and was seen off the coast of Crosby<\/a> today.<\/p>\n The ship was carrying six cranes that will be used on the \u00a3300m Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal construction project.<\/p>\n The scheme, being led by Peel Ports, aims to deepen the Mersey estuary so it can accommodate some of the biggest boats in the world.<\/p>\n Another Zhen Hua ship \u2013 so-called because they are named after the Chinese crane manufacturer \u2013 previously visited in Liverpool<\/a> in November last year to deliver the first five cranes for use in the Liverpool2 project. Jonathan Miller, who took these photographs in Crosby, said: \u201cIt was an impressive sight as it sailed in.\u201d<\/p>\n His images show the Iron Men statues along Crosby beach and the offshore wind turbines.<\/p>\n A total of eight ship-to-shore \u2018megamax\u2019 cranes and 22 cantilever rail-mounted gantry cranes are being supplied to Peel Ports as part of Liverpool2.<\/p>\n Each crane measures 92m high to the top of the frame, approximately the same as Liverpool\u2019s Royal Liver Building, and 132m high when the boom is raised.<\/p>\n Each crane weighs around 1,600 tonnes.<\/p>\n