Beautiful day to load cargo! BBC Chartering’s BBC RUBY taking a cargo of wind towers in Becancour. Photo : Brad Manor ©
PS> It is COLD in Quebec these days.
Beautiful day to load cargo! BBC Chartering’s BBC RUBY taking a cargo of wind towers in Becancour. Photo : Brad Manor ©
The 2008 built DONGBANG GIANT 2 arrived last Sunday from Anping (Taiwan) at the Singapore Eastern Anchorage loaded with a 250 ton SWL gantry crane for Garden Reach Shipbuilding. After taking bunkers the vessel departed westbound heading for Kolkata in India.
That DONGBANG GIANT 2 load is frightening. Do vessels like that have stabilizers? I’m betting on very good weather routing services.
Your putting your bet on the wrong horse.
There is a lot of pre-loading calculations, review, rules and restrictions governing this type of transports.
The Dongbang Giant 2 is a purpose built heavy deck cargo carrier.
L/B Factor: Wide beam relative to LPP = Low GM Ls.
There are ample ballast capacity to ensure that the GM can be kept within acceptable limits.
Too high GM = too stiff = rapid roll motion = excessive acceleration = excessive seafastening load./ excessive stress on cargo.
Too low GM = slow but excessive rolls = excessive seafastening load.
Wrongly positioned ballast = excessive bending moment.
Another load of newbuild barges ex China arriving at Vancouver. Seabridge Marine’s latest set of barges to Canada (7 in total) arrived into Vancouver Harbour for offloading. 5 of the barges are for customer Malaspina Marine and 2 other’s for local Canadian Customers of Seabridge’s. Covid has been a challenge but this is the 2nd set of barges in the past 12 months Seabridge has built and delivered (total of 15 units) from their China operation. Photo : Scott Lindsay
Nice work Bug.
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MARTRADE Shipbrokers floated in the Bucketdredger ZEEAREND on board of the semisubvessel SUPER SERVANT 4 at Rotterdam, Waalhaven area. Weather conditions -6 ° C, light snow, wind NNE 16-20 knots. Destination of SUPER SERVANT 4 is Constanta. The dredger ZEEAREND will be towed from Constanta to Serbia via Danube.
Offshore Wind farm development around the world is good business for heavy lift shipping:
Here is a simple presentation of the many different types of Heavy Lift Carriers that is in regular service around the world:
PS> There are many varieties within each major type.
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More consolidation in heavy lift and project cargo shipping:
Deck cargo vessel ENOUGH TALK completes onbehalf Kuehne+Nagel, the Equinor’s Johan Castberg FPSO -project gas turbine transport to Norway. Turbines and related waste heat recovery unit was transported from Italy to Aker Stord premisses. Transport engineering and operations were made in close co-operation with Kuehne+Nagel.
Photo : Flying Focus Aerial Photography www.flyingfocus.nl ©
The 2019 built 14013 t DWT UHL FRONTIER enroute from Aalborg (Denmark) to the Far East
Photo : Flying Focus Aerial Photography www.flyingfocus.nl ©
BigLift Shipping’s flagship mv HAPPY STAR has been contracted to transport 4 monopiles and 11 transition pieces for the Akita Noshiro wind farm, Japan’s first large-scale offshore wind project. Kajima Corporation, the project’s EPCI contractor, contacted BigLift to complete the logistic puzzle. With a very short lead time, grillage / saddles where designed and manufactured by BigLift, all in accordance to project requirements. The 139 MW Akita-Noshiro project comprises two sites off Akita Port and Noshiro Port. Thirteen Vestas V117-4.2 MW typhoon variant turbines will be installed at the Akita site, while the Noshiro site will comprise 20 turbines:
German based SAL’s heavy lift ship GRIETJE (Antiqua flagged) unloading the tug OCEAN GEORGIE BAIN at Ogden Point, Victoria,BC. The tug is moved from the East to the West coast of Canada to start work for the Ocean Group on the West coast of Canada. Photo : William Hoogendyk ©
The Chinese flagged XIANG RUI KOU loaded in Rotterdam Caland canal the Royal IHC built CSD MOHAB MAMEESH for transportation to Egypt Photo : Arie Boer ©
Floatel Endurance on deck of HLV Blue Marlin in Norway:
She just got a contract extension at Martin Linge Field in the North Sea:
Biglift Barentz loaded a Jackup rig by “float under”:
