World’s Largest Ship Elevator Opens at Three Gorges Dam in Central China

The world’s largest ship elevator at the Three Gorges Dam opened in Yichang City, central China’s Hubei Province, on Sunday, with a prospect to increase the shipping capacity past the dam by six million tons a year. The elevator, the existing largest lifting structure on a navigation route with the highest technical difficulty of the world, features large engineering scope, high lifting height and large weight lifting operation. The largest weight to be handled by the elevator is freighter of 3,000 DWT(