Heavy lift transport

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Modern diesel engines in large vessels can be over 15 meters tall and weigh more than 2,000 tons.

Source: Maritime Updates

Looks like that diesel engine are being loaded onto a West India Line vessel. (cannot see the name, or when and where this happeded.

I was MWS during several loading operations on WIL vessels in Japan in 1976-78. Client was ARAMCO and the cargo was various component for gas cathering and desalination projects in Saudi Arabia:

West India Line in North Sea

PS> Didn’t realise that any of the WIL vessels still existed and active

Another old post that mention WIL vessels (among others):

Smit-Lloyd supply vessels

In the early 1970s Brown & Root took one of their lay barges (B 352 I believe) and a burying barge from GoM over to the North Sea to work on the Forties pipeline. They also brought a couple of West India Line boats as pipe carriers: [1480767] I met one of the Captains that had been on the WIL boats in Japan in 1976 when loading heavy lifts on WIL boats for Saudi Aramco. He explained that the attitude was that; “the North Sea is not even as big as the GoM so what is the problem”? When the fi…