Dive Brief:

• Plodding its way up the East Coast from the Panama Canal is a 4,300-ton craft that started life as the Left Coast Lifter and now goes by the moniker of I Lift NY.
• The machine, on a 40,000-square-foot barge and sporting twin booms capable of lifting 1,900 tons, worked on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and now it will be hoisting for the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge bridge over the Hudson River, north of New York City.
• Fluor is leading a four-firm consortium that got the contract for the $3.14 billion job, and it was one of the four, American Bridge, that built the Left Coast Lifter for $50 million when they realized that there was no crane in America that could close to the lifting needed for the Bay Bridge project.

Dive Insight:

Travel is not new for the massive machine, which is powered by three engines. Its barge was built in the U.S., then towed to Shanghai for the crane structure to be fabricated and assembled, then hauled back to the West Coast on a special freighter.