According to Nantong Zhenhua Heavy Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the No. 1 2000T gantry crane built by the company for Hengli Heavy Industries has been successfully shipped recently.
Hengli Heavy Industries’ gantry crane project has a total of 6 cranes, including 4 2000T gantry cranes and 2 600T gantry cranes. The track span is 188 meters, and the lifting height is 80 meters above the track and 15 meters below the track.
It has multiple functions such as single lifting, double-hook linkage, triple-hook linkage and segmented aerial turnover etc.. Its functions are particularly prominent for the turnover and closing operations of the segments. The entire project was independently designed and built by Nantong Zhenhua Heavy Equipment Manufacturing.
It is understood that the first and second phases of Hengli Heavy Industries are named “Ocean Factory” and “Future Factory” respectively. In July 2024, Industries announced an additional investment of 9.2 billion yuan to start the second phase of Hengli Heavy Industry Industrial Park, and increased investment by 2 billion yuan to build Hengli Heavy Industries (Dalian Changxing Island) supporting industrial park; on August 15, Hengli Heavy Industries’ “Future Factory” started construction. In just 5 months, Hengli Heavy Industries Phase II was officially put into production on January 15, 2025.
The “Future Factory” focuses on high value-added green ships and high-end marine engineering equipment manufacturing businesses, such as very large oil tankers, very large liquefied gas carriers, very large container ships, offshore floating production storage and offloading vessels, offshore floating wind power, and drilling platforms. After full production capacity is reached, Hengli Heavy Industries will be able to achieve an annual processing volume of 2.3 million tons of steel and an annual production of 180 engines.
According to data released by Clarksons, in 2024, Hengli Heavy Industries ranked among the top ten shipyards in the world, ranking fourth on the list with an order volume of 56 ships and 2.68 million compensated gross tonnages (CGT).
It is worth mentioning that on February 8, Hengli Heavy Industries has won a bid for an industrial land in Wafangdian City, Dalian City, Liaoning Province with a transaction price of 116.58 million yuan, which means that Hengli Heavy Industries may further expand its production capacity.