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Still murky this morning but most of the fog has cleared.
Zhen Hua 23 at Liverpool2 waiting to unload cranes 09:00.

Would appear she will be here for at least a week. The cranes can only be unloaded at high tide and of course weather permitting. Looking at the weekend weather and Mon Tues next week, gales forecast. Hope it all goes well.

Good pics. Glad I didnt hang around yesterday waiting for them to unload a crane!

Oh heck. Hoping the same doesn't happen here as it did when she was in Felixstowe......due to mooring ropes breaking in strong winds !!

http://www.shipais.co.uk/

Thought this may help to keep up with ships coming in

Granny - ouch! Hope nobody was hurt in Felixstowe. What a mess. Lansyp, the shipais website is fascinating - reminds folk how much waterborne business still goes on around our islands. I used it to track the three Queens when they visited.

The northernmost crane has moved towards
the quay and may be off the ship. Difficult
to be sure from New Brighton.

Still looks like five in a row.

SOURCE

better view from this cam
http://www.wirralcam.org/dome.shtml
Looks as if the leftmost crane has moved closer to the others.

The falling tide has revealed the edge of the quay and
the northernmost crane is definitely on the quay.(see Photo)

Im sure its all organized really, but when you look through to the quayside, its looks a right shambles of 'stuff'.

The thing which makes it look a shambles is the use of the long focus lens, which makes distant things look much closer together than is the case. The distance from the ship with the cranes to the stern of the Ever Grand is 500 metres.

The sun came out late afternoon
giving a clearer view of the
base of the crane on the quay.
It is on its own bogies and just
in front of the bogies they have stacked
several of the bridge/ramps used
to transfer the crane to the quay..

You get a great view from the port sunlight river park ,they look massive compared to the buildings in Liverpool

I was in New Brighton with the dog this afternoon,those cranes are big compared to the ones in Seaforth docks