Onshore and offshore - the equipment.

What do we know about the onshore and offshore equipment? Not so much. Not may of us know what are davits and cranes for example. How to tell what is a davit and what crane stands for and what it the difference between those two? The main difference between davits and cranes is that one of them is used onshore and the other offshore. Crane is a huge machine used to lift very heavy stuff, like containers for example. It is often used onshore, in the port to lift extremely heavy loads from ships to the shore. The containers then are being unloaded and loaded again with some other stuff, the lifted by the crane back to the ship. Cranes are also very often used at the construction site for, again, lifting heavy building material. Davits are like a smaller version of the crane and are mostly used offshore. It is a system that helps a lifeboat, which is placed on the container ship of any other passenger ship, to lift down in case of emergency. This allows the lifeboat to be boarded securely.