HLPFI reviews the five entries that made it onto this year’s Innovation Award shortlist, sponsored by HLI Rail & Rigging.
For this award, our judges were looking for the company that has developed an innovative piece of equipment or technology designed to improve the lift or transport of heavy and oversize cargoes.
Our shortlist for the Innovation Award includes:
AAL Shipping
AAL’s entry focused on its Eco-Deck – a retractable weather deck extension system that increases the 146 m x 26 m deck space on its 32,000-dwt heavy lift vessel AAL Limassol by 600 sq m, allowing the transport of additional oversize cargoes in one sailing. The Eco-Deck offers several benefits to customers, including economies of scale, flexibility, efficiency and ultimately fewer transports, therefore reducing carbon emissions.
Combilift
Also making the shortlist was Combilift’s Combi-LC Blade, which was designed as a solution for handling the ever-larger cargoes being manufactured for the wind energy sector. The product assists with the safe, stable and efficient lifting and transport of wind turbine blades from manufacturing plant to storage facilities, before they are shipped to their intended destinations.
Hareket
Hareket impressed with the launch of its digital risk and operations management application, HAPP. The platform automatically collects potential risk points on transport routes with the help of Lidar technology, while AI based on entered parameters can also help to select the most reliable and shortest alternative routes. Information on the points passed during transportation can be shared and work order status updates can be recorded in the system in real time.
Liebherr-Werk Ehingen
Liebherr has developed a new lattice boom crane – the LG 1800-1.0 – which can lift up to 800 tonnes. The new model features state-of-the-art crane technology such as V-Frame, VarioTray, ZF Traxon Torque transmission with ECOdrive and WindSpeed load charts. Due to the special arrangement of its axles, the lattice boom crane is suitable for all markets worldwide.
Mammoet
Mammoet’s new electric, battery-powered self-propelled modular transporters (SPMT) made their successful debut at the international nuclear fusion research facility ITER in France. The new technology has been developed in-house over many years and the new zero-emission product has the capacity to drive down the carbon impact of heavy transports’ supply chains.
The winner of this year’s Innovation Award will be announced at the Heavy Lift Awards 2024 ceremony on October 23 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. To join the celebrations, book your space today.
