Heerema Marine Contractors’ (HMC) motion compensated gripper frame has been loaded out ahead of installation aboard its heavy lift vessel Thialf.
HLPFI reported in October 2022 that HMC had selected Huisman for the delivery of this gripper frame, which will allow the company to install monopiles up to 12.5 m in diameter, with a length of up to 115 m and a weight of 3,200 tonnes.
After 2.5 years of engineering, fabrication and significant testing, HMC said the load-out was successfully completed by Mammoet at the Huisman quay in Schiedam, the Netherlands. Next week the gripper frame will be towed onto the barge H-408, which will make its way from Schiedam to the Calandkanaal, where Thialf is berthed.
