Boskalis’ semi-submersible vessel Forte has delivered SpaceX’s recovered Starship Ship 40 to Brownsville, Texas, after a 12,729-nautical-mile voyage involving float-on loading near Christmas Island.
BigLift Shipping’s CY Frontier has discharged two 450-tonne offshore steel grillages in Cádiz, Spain, after transporting them from South Korea. The vessel is continuing to Rotterdam with newbuild hulls.
JSI Alliance’s heavy lift vessel Fairplayer has delivered four RTG cranes from Cork, Ireland, to Gulftainer in Khor Fakkan. Each crane weighed approximately 150 tonnes and required detailed transport planning.
Historic wooden replica Batavia has been moved ashore at Museum Batavialand to improve maintenance, protect its ageing structure and support its long-term preservation.
DENZAI has completed transport and lifting works for a 201-tonne pool condenser at KAFCO in Bangladesh, covering ocean shipping, barge transfer, inland haulage, skidding and final installation.
SAL Heavy Lift’s Orca-class vessel Patricia has loaded a Liebherr LPS 550 crane in Rostock for transport to Casablanca, alongside an LHM 800 mobile harbour crane destined for Luanda, Angola.
CRCC Bridge Piling No. 1 has departed China for Brazil’s Salvador–Itaparica Bridge project. The vessel features a 156 m pile frame, 700-tonne pile-handling capacity and a combined DP and anchor-mooring system.
McDermott has shipped the 4,600-tonne Shell Manatee topsides from Altamira, Mexico, to Trinidad and Tobago. The structure will be installed offshore as part of the Manatee gas development.
Chipolbrok has started construction of TK2601, the first of six 60,800-dwt multipurpose heavy-lift vessels, following steel cutting at Taizhou Kouan Shipbuilding.
