The Kockums Crane () is a high gantry crane in the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. It was originally used at the Kockums shipyard in Malmö, Sweden.
It was built in 1973âÂÂ74 and can lift . The gauge of crane's rails is and the rail length . The crane was used to build about 75 ships. Its last use in Malmö was in mid-1997, when it lifted the foundations of the high pillars of the ÃÂresund Bridge.
The crane was first sold in the early 1990s to the Danish company Burmeister & Wain but the company went bankrupt before the crane could be moved.
The crane was a landmark of Malmö from its time of construction until its dismantling in the summer of 2002, when it was shipped to Ulsan, after being sold to Hyundai Heavy Industries for $1. The Koreans have dubbed the crane ë§Â뫼ì ëÂÂ물 (Tears of Malmö), because the residents of Malmö reportedly wept when they saw their crane being towed away.
Former location: ("Kockums Crane")<br> Today's location: ("Tears of Malmö")
At Ulsan the crane is located on a tongue of land within the Bangeo-dong quarter right at the mouth of the Taehwa River. Additionally a second gantry crane with a lifting capacity of was subsequently erected nearby. The two cranes share a common working area. "Tears of Malmö" is the more southern of the two.