IN DEPTH: DolWin Alpha platform

The enormous yellow box looks too big to be moved. It is the size of a large apartment block — ten storeys high, 62 metres long and 42 metres wide — and weighs in at 9,300 tonnes, more than 1,100 double-decker buses.

The DolWin Alpha converter platform travels under the raised Botlekbrug near Rotterdam, on its way from Zwijndrecht to Schiedam
The DolWin Alpha converter platform travels under the raised Botlekbrug near Rotterdam, on its way from Zwijndrecht to Schiedam
Published 2 July 2013, 10:17Updated 26 September 2016, 14:07
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