Gantry Crane

A gantry crane is typically used for outdoor applications or for lifting capability below existing overhead bridge crane systems. Gantry cranes are often used in manufacturing facilities, shipyards, Marble and Granite block lifting, railyards, special construction sites, steel mills, and other applications. Gantry cranes are sometimes also known as a portal crane. The term portal is used to describe the workspace or portal of the crane.

Since gantry cranes are mobile, they are generally used in places where the goods cannot be brought to the crane, like in the case of an overhead crane. Amidst gantry cranes as well, there is a further classification.