SEARSPORT, Maine — The Maine Department of Transportation says a marine crane that has a 144 metric ton lift capacity will be the state’s largest such crane when it arrives.
The crane is due to arrive in Searsport on Friday.
A specialty heavy lift transport vessel is expected to arrive with the partially assembled crane located on its weather deck. Transfer of the crane and all its components is expected to begin Saturday morning and be completed by nightfall.
The port of Searsport received $4.2 million in federal funds for the purchase of the crane.
It will be owned by the state of Maine and operated by Sprague Operating Resources, operators of the Mack Point terminal in Searsport.
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DCP Midstream will need this crane for the huge load of crap they are unloading on the people in and around Searsport.
Maine needs this crane to unload all the Crap it buys from China.
I wonder if all of the anti-propane folks will protest this today?
OH NO, a giant crane blighting the scenic vista’s of Searsport, it may even have a light on top of it at night. The horror, the property values are going to plummet, and tourism will suffer a crippling blow.
And to think we used to have numerous “working waterfronts” in Maine.
Where are the teabuggers now complaining about welfare abuse? Here we have the people of Maine paying for a crane to be used by a welfare queen. Sprague is part of the mutibillion-dollar Axel Johnson Group based in Stockholm, Sweden. Guess they couldn’t have afforded this on their own.
Oh, and the crane was manufactured in Germany. Guess American workers couldn’t figure out such high technology on their own.
Final note: the need to change Searsport’s building height ordinance so poor little Sprague could get in on a last-minute federally subsidized gravy train for impoverished little businesses was also the backdoor pretext so poor little ConocoPhillips and poor little Duke Energy could build their Big Tank propane bomb in our town.