Indians have long been dismissive of China's rapid development, and Chinese scoff at India's industrial backwardness. However, on May 1, India's "Defense Update" website exposed an incident that made the Chinese people cry and laugh, that is, the 250-ton gantry crane of a shipyard in India actually collapsed, and more seriously, it directly hit the newly built P-17A frigate.
As an improved form of bridge crane, gantry crane undertakes the unloading operation of bulk cargo, etc., and due to the large operating range, strong versatility and high site utilization of gantry crane, it is favored by a variety of construction sites, including shipyards. Because the gantry crane is very commonly used in China, therefore, the Chinese government is very strict in relevant regulations to prevent accidents. In the related manufacturing field is the world's leading position, China's Shanghai Zhenhua once built the world's largest gantry crane for a shipyard in Brazil, with a lifting tonnage of 2,000 tons, creating a world record.
Compared with China, India is relatively backward in this field, but this does not seem to affect its confidence in its own products, but in the event of an accident, its losses are bound to be huge. In this Accident of The Indian Gantry Crane, it was smashed into the P-17A frigate of the Indian Navy, what does such an accident mean for India?
The accident-causing Garden Ritchie Shipbuilding Engineering Company received an order from the Indian Navy worth 200 billion rubles in 2015, the largest order ever received by the company, for the construction of three P-17A stealth frigates. According to the indian Navy's top executives, the frigate has a displacement of 6700 tons and has a very superior stealth performance, which can fully hide its weapon system. Therefore, the Indian military has very high strategic expectations of the frigate, but it is clear that once it is smashed, the construction process of the ship will inevitably be longer, which is undoubtedly worse for India's already weak military industrial capabilities.
Compared with the performance of the gantry crane made in India, the quality of the equipment produced by China is well-known in the world, however, India does not seem to trust the quality of the goods produced by China. Therefore, after this accident, the indian shipyard's biggest regret should be that it did not buy Made in China. Of course, the gantry crane is only a microcosm of the current situation of Sino-Indian trade, and in today's economic globalization, blindly rejecting foreign goods or trade protectionism is likely to be self-defeating. (Blade DY)