Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co

Beneath autumn skies, a freighter carrying four of the world's largest container-cargo cranes glided into San Francisco Bay, squeezing under the Golden Gate Bridge en route to the docks of Oakland. That day in the fall of 2000 was a spectacular, but not singular, triumph for an upstart Chinese company that dominates manufacturing of the most important piece of maritime machinery other than ships. Just two months earlier, the Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co.