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Mighty Servant 3 Sinks – A Look Back
In December 2006, Dockwise’s heavy lift vessel, Mighty Servant 3 was offloading the semi-submersible drilling rig Aleutian Key in the port of Luanda, Angola when disaster struck. The vessel was...
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Dockwise Planning New Heavy Lift Ship That Will Dwarf Everything
Illustration courtesy Royal Boskalis Westminster Royal Boskalis Westminster says it is studying the feasibility of a new, even larger heavy lift transport vessel that will dwarf even its Dockwise...
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SAL Wins Tricky Heavy Lift Contract from BAM Clough
Image: SAL Heavy Lift SAL Heavy Lift announced today the signing of a major new contract with Australian marine jetty specialist BAM Clough for the shipping and deployment of LNG and LPG product...
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PHOTOS: Second Shipment of Panama Canal’s Giant New Gates Arrives in Colón
The second shipment of four rolling gates for the new locks of the expanded Panama Canal arrived in Colón, Panama today aboard the semi-submersible heavy-lift vessel STX Sun Rise following a month...
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RollDock Takes Delivery of Interesting New Semi-Submersible Heavy Lift Ro-Ro
Rolldock Storm. Photo courtesy FSG You heard that right… Dutch heavy lift company RollDock B.V. has taken delivery of its newest semi-submersible heavy lift ro-ro vessel from the German shipbuilder...
View ArticleVIDEO: Valemon Topside Departs South Korea Shipyard
Statoil’s Valemon topside left the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea on June 15, 2014 atop the Dockwise Triumph for its delivery to the Norwegian continental shelf. The journey to the...
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Port of Algeciras Gets Some Really, Really Big Cranes
This photo comes from Inchcape Shipping Services, which was recently hired to handle the arrival and offloading of 4 of the world’s largest ship-to-shore cranes at the port of Algeciras, located on...
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Stanislav Yudin Completes Offshore Substation Installation [VIDEO]
Image: Dong Energy Seaway Heavy Lifting’s Stanislav Yudin completed the installation of the Westermost Rough substation for Dong Energy last month. Dong Energy just released the following time-lapse...
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Saipem 7000 Lands Statoil’s Valemon Topsides
Two hours after the Valemon topsides were lifted off the transport vessel, the structure landed on its feet. (Photo: André Osmundsen/Statoil) 40 days after leaving Samsung Heavy Industries, the...
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Operating Amidst Zombie Shipowners, Intermarine Waits for an Inevitable...
“The rates don’t reflect the true supply and demand situation,” commented Intermarine’s Operating Chairman Andre Grikitis in a recent phone call. His company operates 55 and owns four ships that...
View ArticleWatch: Dolwin Beta Arrives in Haugesund
The Dolwin Beta high voltage AC/DC power converter platform arrived yesterday afternoon in Haugesund, Norway. A collaboration between Aibel AS and ABB, Dolwin Beta’s submersible hull was built at...
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Nation’s Largest Floating Drydock Arrives In Portland – Photos
The MV Blue Marlin, carrying the Vigorous, arrived off Astoria, Oregon on Sunday before making its way up the Columbia River and then the Willamette River to Portland. U.S. Coast Guard Photo The...
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HLV Rambiz Conducts Awkward North Sea Heavy Lift
On 6 June 2014, Scaldis Marine Contractors NV, under contract to Wintershall Noordzee B.V., conducted a heavy lift and installation operation utilizing their HLV Rambiz, a self-propelled crane barge....
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Giant Goliat FPSO Sets Off for World’s Longest Piggyback Ride [VIDEO]
Image: ENI Norge ENI’s Goliat FPSO, sitting atop the world’s largest heavy lift vessel Dockwise Vanguard, has just begun its 60-day voyage from Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea to Norway. At...
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Rambiz 4000 – Unique Self-Propelled Crane Ship Ordered by Scaldis
Illustration: Scaldis Antwerp’s Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors NV has announced an order for a unique self-propelled DP2 crane ship with 4,000 ton lifting capacity from Royal IHC. The ship,...
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Seafarers Crushed in Heavy Lift Accident at Port Hedland
MV Happy Buccaneer file photo (c) BigLift Two seafarers were seriously injured this week at Western Australia’s Port Hedland after being crushed in an accident aboard a heavy lift ship. The Australian...
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Hyundai Heavy’s New 10,000 Ton Capacity Crane Vessel Completed
Image: HHI Yeongam, South Korea-based Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (HSHI), an affiliate of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), announced today the completion of the Hyundai 10,000, a 10,000 ton-capacity...
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Photos – A Ship Carrying Ships Arrives in Rotterdam
The vessels being loaded in Nantong, China in early January. Photo courtesy Damen Here are some photos showing a heavy lift ship’s arrival in Rotterdam with a cargo of pontoons, barges and tugboats...
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Heavy Lift Photos: MV Happy Star Delivers Shiploaders to Canada
BigLift’s new MV Happy Star a recently completed the transport of over 3,000 metric tons of loading equipment to the multi-user docks of Sept Iles, Canada. Happy Star is the the company’s newest heavy...
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Time-Lapse Video: SAL Heavy Lift Vessel Loads Eight Damen Tugs
Check out this timelapse video showing the SAL DP1 heavy lift vessel MV Svenja loading up eight Damen tugs using its two 1,000 ton cranes. According to SAL, the voyage started in Haiphong, Vietnam...
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