December 16 - SAL Heavy Lift's largest multipurpose vessel, Lone, has loaded 11 outsize modules in the UAE for shipment to a gas plant in the UK.
Each of the modules weighed up to 388 tonnes and had the dimensions 31 m x 10 m x 11 m, and the vessel stowed an overall 25,020 cu m of cargo on board.
SAL's other vessels, Gloria and Trina, were also involved in the project, carrying a total of more than 55,000 cu m of similar modules and associated equipment from Kuwait and the UAE to the UK.
USA-based transport engineering specialist Berard has further strengthened heavy transport capabilities with the recent delivery of 12 additional axle lines of Scheuerle SPMTs
Combi Lift successfully completed lots one and two of complex multimodal transport project, delivering a complete chemical plant from Chennai port, India, to Proctor, West Virginia, USA, via the port of New Orleans.
Antonov Airlines and First Class Freight (FCF) transported oversized equipment, including an Azipod thruster, from Hong Kong to Houston, USA.
Schwerlast Weise has taken delivery of a new Liebherr LTM 1300-6.3 mobile crane.
At the end of September, Bergé Maritime received a Liebherr LHM 550 crane as part of a plan to upgrade the port of Tarragona, Spain.
Mammoet’s SK6000 has passed its test programme after Lloyd’s Register certified the crane’s safe operation to its specification.
