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Kulluk Drilling Rig Sails Away on COSCO Heavy Lift Transporter [VIDEO]
Screen shot via YouTube Ever wondered what happened to the arctic drilling rig Kulluk that ended up on an Alaskan “beach” after she broke away from her tow in January 2013? With assistance from Dutch...
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GSI Cuts Steel on COSCO’s Heavy Lift Competitor to the Dockwise Vanguard
COSCO Shipping Company Ltd. (COSCOL) has cut steel on a new semi-submersible heavy lift vessel that once completed will compete head-to-head with the world’s most capable heavy lift ship, Dockwise...
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Offloading Giant Cranes from a Ship – Here’s How It’s Done [VIDEO]
Four Super Post-Panamax cranes arrive in Houston on May 5, 2015. Photo: Port of Houston Authority. The arrival of four new Super Post-Panamax container cranes at the Port of Houston had a lot of people...
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Ship Photos of the Day – Dockwise Vanguard Loads Gargantuan Cargo in Rotterdam
Dockwise Vanguard with Armada Intrepid FPSO, May 10, 2015. Photo: Hans Elbers/Fotovlieger.nl Dockwise Vanguard, the world’s most capable semi-submersible heavy lift ship, was in the Port of Rotterdam...
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WATCH: Mega Yacht Lift Goes Horribly Wrong
The video below was just posted to facebook by the Panama-based website Mi Diario and shows a heavy lift project going horribly wrong. You can watch the video here on Facebook if you can’t see below:...
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Ship Photos of the Day – Broken Down ‘Le Boreal’ Gets Lift Back to Europe
The luxury cruise ship Le Boreal was loaded onto the deck of the COSCO Heavy Transport ship HLV Kang Sheng Kou in Punta Arenas, Chile this week about two months after the ship was hit by a major fire...
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WATCH: Float-On Megayacht Transport with Super Servant 4
Aerial footage of DYT Yacht Transport’s semi-submersible yacht carrier Super Servant 4 loading vessels using the float-on/float-off method in Le Marin, Martinique, a French island in the eastern...
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Video: Ivar Aasen Topside Sail-Away
The 13,900 tonne topside for the Ivar Aasen project is on its way to Norway after construction was completed at a shipyard in Singapore. The platform deck was built at the Sembawang Shipyard, a...
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BigLift Orders Third 1,800-Ton Capacity Heavy Lift Vessel
Dutch heavy lift specialist BigLift Shipping has ordered a third Happy S-type vessel with 1,800 metric ton lifting capacity. The new vessel will be identical to BigLift’s flagship Happy Star featuring...
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WATCH: Ivar Aasen Topside Installation in North Sea
The heavy lift crane vessel Saipem 7000 has completed the installation of all Ivar Aasen topside modules at the Ivar Aasen oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. For the lift, the crane...
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WATCH: Mega Yacht Lift Goes Horribly Wrong
The video below was just posted to facebook by the Panama-based website Mi Diario and shows a heavy lift project going horribly wrong. You can watch the video below: The ship appears to be the general...
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Ship Photos of the Day – 22 Vessel Heavy Lift and Transport
A total of 22 vessels built at several Damen shipyards were loaded aboard the heavy lift vessel Happy Star for delivery to Rotterdam later this month. For Damen, the shipment marked the largest...
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Ship Photos of the Day – BigLift’s Happy Star Arrives in Rotterdam Carrying...
BigLift Shipping’s heavy lift vessel Happy Star arrived in Rotterdam carrying a total of 22 stock vessels for Dutch shipbuilding group Damen. The delivery marks the largest transportation of Damen...
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WATCH: Three of the World’s Largest Cranes Arrive in Mexico
Three of the world’s largest ship-to-shore cranes have arrived onboard the heavy lift ship ZHEN HUA 26 at APM Terminals Lázaro Cárdenas (TEC2) located along the Pacific coast in Mexico. The 1.2 million...
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WATCH: Aasta Hansteen Substructure Heavy Lift
The Aasta Hansteen spar is designed by Technip-USA and is currently being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The facility will be the first spar installation on the Norwegian continental...
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SPOTD VB 10,000 Hurricane Platform Detoppler
Today’s Ship Photo Of The Day (SPOTD) features Versabar’s heavy lift vessel the VB 10,000. In response to the many platforms toppled by hurricanes into the Gulf of Mexico, Versabar designed and built a...
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Semi-Submersible to Provide Stricken Rig Transocean Winner with Lift to...
A Norwegian semi-submersible heavy lift vessel has been contracted to transport the stricken drilling rig Transocean Winner from Scotland’s Isle of Lewis to Turkey where it will be demolished, the UK...
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WATCH: 900-Ton Ford Class Superlift at Newport News Shipbuilding
Huntington Ingalls’ Newport New Shipbuilding recently conducted a 900-ton superlift in the construction of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the U.S. Navy’s next generation...
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Transocean Winner Ready for Its Lift
Update (Sept. 30): Final preparations for moving the Transocean Winner rig onto the OHT Hawk are continuing Friday. The anchors have now been disconnected and the rig is being held on four tugs about...
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Transocean Winner Loaded Onto Heavy Lift Ship in Scotland
The stricken drilling rig Transocean Winner has been loaded onto a semi-submersible heavy lift ship nearly two months after the rig ran aground on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. The UK Maritime and...
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