Mammoet, on behalf of the Netherlands-based Dieseko Group, has transported a Giant 2000 Vibro – an upending offshore hammer.
According to Mammoet it is the world’s largest offshore hammer. It was moved on eight-axle trailers and will be used to install or decommission monopiles for wind turbines.
Dieseko said the hammer underwent several load tests of more than 2,000 tonnes to prepare it for lifting monopiles weighing approximately 900 tonnes.
Heavy lift and engineered transport specialist Mammoet is building a 6,000-tonne lift capacity ring crane that can be fully operated using electric power, with delivery scheduled for 2024.
Mammoet has lifted and installed heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) for the Atinkou project – a combined-cycle power plant in the Ivory Coast, Africa.
Mammoet has replaced nine process towers as part of a facility upgrade for Ma’aden Wa’ad Al Shamal Phosphate Company’s (MWSPC) Umm Wu’al sulphuric acid and power plant in Saudi Arabia.
South Africa-headquartered Vanguard has completed transport of at 50 m-long, 171-tonne cold box from the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia to a copper mine in Solwezi, Zambia.
Total Movements International has successfully coordinated transport of the massive 60 MW barge-mounted power plant, Nusantara II, from Surabaya, East Java, to Kolaka, southeast Sulawesi.
DSV, with its partner Sarens, was responsible for the transport of 1,700 individual cargoes including a 850-tonne wash tower, for the largest petrochemical investment project in Europe in the last 20 years.
