The New York Wheel Gets Its First Shipment of Crane Parts

Shipping yard with two yellow cranes unloading a freighter of cargo. A yellow tractor is parked in front of two orange cones.

As DNAinfo reports, on June 28th a cargo ship from Denmark carrying large crane parts for construction of Staten Island’s New York Wheel arrived at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT), where it was docked for five days with around 30 union longshoreman moving the cargo. This was the first shipment to the site in more than 10 years, revitalizing it as “a working maritime port facility” that will hopefully create hundreds of jobs.

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