r/BeAmazed • u/freudian_nipps • Aug 27 '26

Technology The Hyundai-10000, the world's largest shear-leg floating crane, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. It has a lifting capacity of 10,000 tons (11,000 short tons)

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u/Spqroberts7 Aug 28 '26

Why is it that there’s a short ton and a normal ton?

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u/-Pagani- Aug 28 '26

Probably meant "short of 11 000 tons"