Dangerous cranes to go from local rivers
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FLOATING cranes in the upstream Huangpu River and its branches on the outskirts of Qingpu, Songjiang and Minhang districts have been ordered to stop operating from tomorrow.
The move is to counter pollution and traffic dangers on the waterways — the 196 cranes move more than 100 million tons of gravel and construction materials annually from the river banks to cargo ships for the city and neighboring Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.
The measure was announced by Shanghai’s Transportation Commission yesterday. All cranes will be demolished by March 20, the authority said.
Fifteen ships were wrecked in 22 accidents relating to the floating cranes in the past five years, the commission said.
The cranes began operating in the early 1990s due to the lack of transportation facilities in local harbors.
The remaining cranes are mainly floating along the upstream Huangpu and its branches in Qingpu, Songjiang and Minhang districts.
But they are a traffic hazard, causing some cargo ships to change course.
And almost three quarters of the cranes are near protected water source zones, posing a major risk to the city’s water supplies.
The Jinze Reservoir on the Huangpu supplies water to about 6.7 million residents, or about a quarter of Shanghai’s residents. The upstream Huangpu also has 15 bridges for the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway and expressways, as well as two tunnels and several cross-river power, oil and gas lines.
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