ON THE GROUND
A TALE OF
TWO CRANES
By Tarren Bolton
Concord Namibia (Plant & Crane Hire) has played a key role
in the successful completion of the Neckartal Dam project,
the largest water-storage dam in Namibia at about 850
million cubic metres. It supplied a 220t and a 550t crane to
assist Italian contractor Salini Impregilo with construction
of the 80m-high dam, with a crest length of 518m.
T
his curved gravity dam on
the Fish River near Berseba,
about 40km north-west of
Keetmanshoop, began construction
in 2013 and was finally completed in
October 2018. It has almost three times
the capacity of the Hardap Dam near
Mariental in the Hardap region. The
Neckartal Dam is expected to supply a
5 000ha irrigation scheme in the region.
The 220t Liebherr LTM1200 mobile
crane was supplied by Concord
Namibia after having travelled all the
way from Saldanha, explains Concord
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