Another Big Blue Crane to Leave Manitowoc for Hawaii Friday

May 29, 2026

NOON FRIDAY UPDATE: Big Blue Crane P-82 departed Manitowoc this morning as planned. To follow her progress search for the tug Ocean Tower on vessel tracking apps.

MANITOWOC, WI – Big Blue Crane P-82, a large 200-foot-tall crane, is scheduled to leave Manitowoc Harbor, towed by the tug Ocean Tower, on Friday at 7 a.m. It will transit the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Panama Canal on a roughly 120-day journey to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Oahu, Hawaii. The previous Big Blue crane (Crane 70) left Manitowoc on Nov. 18, 2025, and traveled through the Panama

Crane P-82 is expected to leave Manitowoc around 7 a.m. Friday, assisted by the Ocean Tower tug (both pictured). [AOL]

Canal to service submarines in Washington state. In addition to these Manitowoc assembly projects, Konecranes also secured a $51.2 million contract in May 2026 to build another 175-ton heavy-lift crane at its New Berlin, Wisconsin, facility for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine

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