FOG BLOG SAINT JOHN LOG: 2 BIG CRANES ARRIVE AND NOW ADORN THE PORT OF SAINT JOHN!

2 new monster cranes on the skyline at the Port of Saint John It's been a monumental task getting the cranes to N.B. and the job is only half done Saint John's skyline is about to change as two new massive industrial cranes floated into the Port of Saint John on Friday.

Weighing more than 16,000 tonnes, the two super post-Panamax cranes will tower over the current pair by about 30 metres.

"They're quite bigger than the existing cranes," said Maksim Mihic, a mechanical engineer by trade, now the CEO and general manager of DP World Canada Inc., the company that owns and operates the cranes.

He boasts they have the same amount of technology equivalent to an airplane or a generating station, but packed into a machine that 'flies' by moving a joystick.

Getting these cranes to New Brunswick has been a colossal undertaking.

Coming in from South Carolina, the cranes have been at sea for the last week. They left DP World facilities in Charleston on Jan. 22, travelling up the eastern seaboard bound for Saint John aboard the heavy-load carrier ship, the Hanjin Pioneer.