Dutch heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has helped to lift an 8,400t combined road and rail bridge into place, as a replacement to a century-old railway bridge over the Danube in Linz, Austria.
The project involved getting the sections onto barges to float them into place for steel fabricator MCE, a subsidiary of Austrian engineer Habau Group.
Each of the two main sections, assembled on the riverside, were around 100m long and weighing 2,800t.
Over 11 days, Mammoet lifted them with four of its Mega Jack 800s and used 120-axle self-propelled modular transporters to shift them onto the barges that would position them above the bridge’s foundations.
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