AAL’s S-class ship Bangkok recently transported 12 vessels from Genoa, Italy to the US Virgin Islands and Port Everglades, Florida.
3,500 sq m of cargo was loaded on the heavy lift ship, including a 51 m-long superyacht weighing 400 tonnes – well within the 700-tonne lifting capacity of Bangkok’s cranes.
The insured value of the yachts aboard AAL Bangkok was close to USD100 million.
Toepfer Transport’s monthly multipurpose rate index continues to track sideways. The average daily time charter rate for a 12,500 dwt/F-type heavy lift vessel held firm in November 2024, falling 0.02 percent month on month to USD13,157.
Walter Keil Transporte und Erdbewegungen (Keil) of Austria has used a Goldhofer MPA 3 low-loader semi-trailer to deliver excavators, dump trucks and other heavy equipment to a construction site situated at an altitude of over 3,000 m.
Trans Global Projects Group (TGP) has transported 73 boiler components from Dongguan and Shanghai, China, to Glasgow, Scotland.
Dutch transport engineering specialist Mammoet has performed the decommissioning load-ins of all three gravity-based topsides that were installed at the Brent field in the North Sea. Brent Charlie was the third, last and heaviest of the jobs.
Antonov Airlines in cooperation with Ceva Logistics delivered 40-tonnes of satellite equipment from Cologne-Bonn, Germany to Titusville, USA.
Laso Transportes has delivered key components for the 51.2 MW Cascante wind farm in Navarra, Spain.
