dam Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/dam/ Mechanically-minded travel Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:09:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 World’s Largest Ship Elevator Opens in China https://mechtraveller.com/2016/09/worlds-largest-ship-elevator-opens-china/ https://mechtraveller.com/2016/09/worlds-largest-ship-elevator-opens-china/#respond Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:04:18 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=1792 This is pretty impressive. It’s the world’s largest ship elevator built onto the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River at Yichang City, Hubei Province, central China. It opened earlier this month (18 Sep) and it enables small passenger & cargo ships up to 3,000 DWT(deadweight ton) to be lifted/dropped 113 metres in 40 mins […]

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