👈 China’s giant elevator; lifts a 3,000-ton ship up by 113 meters

The lifting structure of the Three Gorges Dam in China moves ships up to a height of 113 meters.

This massive system, weighing 15,500 tons, reduces the time for vessels to pass to 40 minutes. The use of 256 steel cables brings the precision of this engineering to two centimeters.

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