Seaway 7’s SEAWAY HAWK loaded the drillship ARPOADOR at Angra Dos Reis in Brazil for transportation to Singapore.
Photos: Capt Ken Bekkenfold – Loadmaster Seaway 7 (c)
The HANJIN LEADER arriving from Aalborg in Vlissingen to discharge at the BOW terminal in the Sloehaven
Photo: Wim Kosten – www.maritimephoto.com (c)
The Cosco Shipping’s HLV "XIN YAO HUA " loading the semisub “SHEN LAN TAN SUO” at Raffles reserve, Singapore for transportation to Guangzhou, China.
Photos: ABL Singapore.
HLV "XIN YAO HUA ":
MODU “SHEN LAN TAN SUO”:
https://www.dnv.com/maritime/dnv-calendar-2022/shen-lan-tan-suo.html
Heavy Transport Dock, HTV SEAWAY SWAN delivering an Austal floating dry dock in San Diego August 1, 2023. Will provide full-service repair, maintenance, & modernization services for small surface combatants, unmanned and autonomous vessels, and auxiliary ships.
Photo: Warship Cam
Here is info on the floating dock:
Doesn’t say where it was built. (??)
COSCO Shipping Sets Semi-Sub Heavy Lift Record
COSCO shipping claims a new record for the heaviest tonnage and largest volume of a single piece of cargo carried.
The record came with the smooth departure of the deepwater drilling platform, Deep Blue Exploration, transiting from Singapore to China on the 80,000-ton semi-submersible ship XIN YAO HUA operated by COSCO Shipping Special Transport
Photo: ABL Singapore ©
CNOOC’s Deep Blue Exploration platform is the world’s first drilling platform independently designed and built in China to obtain DNV’s smart certification. The platform is 111.5 meters (366 feet) long, 88.5 meters (290 feet) wide, 109 meters (338 feet) high, and weighs 35,500 tons. Its maximum operating water depth is 1,000 meters (3,281 feet), and the maximum drilling depth is 9,144 meters (30,000 feet). It took 10 hours from the sumerging of the semi-sub to the successful positioning of the rig.
Not entirely true. Heavier an larger cargoes have been transported earlier by Dockwise (now Boskalis)
I was MWS for the loading of Noble Jim Day on Blue Marlin in Singapore in 2010:
NJD was 43K tonnes at loadout.
SEAWAY FALCON loaded two Bibby offshore accommodation barges at Batam with destination The Netherlands. Photo: ABL Singapore
Lots of different cargoes are carried on HLVs:
The COSCO SHIPPING 2016 built Heavy Lift Vessel XIANG HE KOU navigating the Sutors of Cromarty inbound Invergordon from Penglai China with Monopiles for Moray West OWF.
Photo: David Meek (c)
A more common cargo for HLVs:
The KANG SHENG KOU loaded with the JB 114 arrived in Rotterdam-Caland canal
Photo: Hans Lingbeek (c)
Here is the Tai An Kou off Batam, Indonesia with the newbuilt JB 117 on deck, ready for transport to Rotterdam via Cape of Good Hope in 2011:
I was MWS. (Own picture)
The SEAWAY ALFALIFT outbound from Amsterdam passing IJmuiden
Photo: Jan Plug ©
Sunny Saturday for SEAWAY ALFA LIFT. After being mobilized at Port of Amsterdam the heavy lift vessel has departed for seatrials before she kicks off at her first project in offshore wind.
Photo: Wim Schouwenaar Managing Director DHSS - Clarksons Port Services
The large SRW platform loaded onboard the BIGROLL BERING On the way from Romania to Norway, above seen passing the Bosphorus.
Newbuilt Modern Multi-purpose (MMP) Heavy lift vessels joining the growing fleet of vessel engaged in the project cargo trade:
The shape of things to come… The BBC Chartering fleet is about to get two more F500-type multi-purpose heavy-lift vessels this year. The BBC PHILIPPINES is in the final stages of outfitting, almost ready to leave the shipyard and will be delivered to her owners Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG in October. The BBC ODESA, according to current plans, will follow suit roughly one month later. Both vessels will enter a long-term charter with BBC Chartering shortly after delivery to their owner.
The last of ten ships of this type will be delivered in 2024.
WOLVERINE SPIRIT 1 Transloading barge and WOLVERINE SPIRIT 2 Lightering barge will be arriving in Prince Rupert soon. Built at Damen Song Cam Shipbuilding, Haiphong, Vietnam.
Seen here at the start of the journey, being loaded on the SSHVL Hua Rui Long near Haiphong
Seaway 7’s heavy lift vessel m/v ALBATROSS loaded with the Jack up ARGENT 3 at Freeport-Bahamas
Photo: Vadym Vozniuk ©
“Transocean Endurance” loaded onto the heavy lift ship “Xin Guang Hua” at Westcon Yard in Ølensvåg, Norway. Going to Australia. Phot: Arild B via NSF
HLV SEAWAY FALCON loaded with two floatels heading for Amsterdam.
Photo: Flying Focus Aerial Photography www.flyingfocus.nl ©
HLV m/v SEAWAY SWAN discharging the Jack up VALARIS 107 in Admiralty Bay New Zealand .
Photo: Vadym Vozniuk - 2nd Officer o/b Seaway Swan (c)
On 4th. October the SEAWAY HAWK successfully loaded two brand new KFELS B class JU rigs for ADNOC, Abu Dhabi. The rigs were the “AL SAADIYAT” (ex. “Heidrun”, Borr Drilling) and the “AL SILA” (ex. “Huldra”, Borr Drilling).
The rigs will be transported to Abu Dhabi where they will be commissioned prior to commence working for ADNOC in UAE waters. The loading was done by Seaway 7 Sr. Loadmaster Capt. Ken Bekkevold and Seaway Hawk Master Capt. Albert Kachkanian and his Team.
Photo: ABL-Singapore ©