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All the heavy lifting was carried out by a crew from Mammoet, a Dutch company that specializes in moving extraordinarily large objects. Its past projects include raising the Russian submarine Kursk after it was sunk by an explosion a decade ago, and transporting the 400-foot-long, 5.5-million pound new Providence River Bridge 12 miles up Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay in August 2006.
Barend Schuring, Mammoet’s project manager for the bridge job, said each barge was 180 feet long and, when welded together, had a total width of 108 feet.
A crew from Weeks Marine Inc. was handling the bridge transportation in a joint venture with the Kiewit Corp., the Omaha, Neb.-based construction company contracted by New York City for the $612 million bridge replacement project.
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Associated Press writer Chris Carola in Albany, N.Y.