![[VIDEO] Pioneering Spirit’s jacket lift system beams arrive in Rotterdam](https://swzmaritime.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Aankomst-Iron-Lady-03-1024x576-1.jpg)
by Mariska Buitendijk | Sep 9, 2021 | Heavy lift, News, Offshore
The two huge steel beams for Pioneering Spirit’s new jacket lift system have arrived in Rotterdam after a week-long tow from the fabrication yard in northern Italy. Now starts the challenge of installing these 6000-tonne mega steel structures on board the...
![[VIDEO] How Jumbo-SAL shipped three assembled cranes in one go](https://swzmaritime.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Jumbo-Kinetic-uway-AERIAL-2.jpg)
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 21, 2021 | Heavy lift, News, Project cargo, Shipping
Jumbo-SAL Alliance’s heavy lift vessel Jumbo Kinetic has transported three fully assembled shipyard cranes from China to Italy. Transporting such cranes is challenging because they are both tall and extremely narrow. This meant stability needed to be increased for...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 25, 2021 | Heavy lift, News, Offshore
Heerema’s heavy lift vessel Sleipnir installed the 12,050-metric-tonne Johan Sverdrup processing platform (P2) jacket on 18 June. This has set a new record for the heaviest lift jacket installation. Before this, the Sleipnir had already completed what was the...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 10, 2021 | Heavy lift, Maritime research, News
Jan Douwe de Jong, master student at the Dutch Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz, has won an award for his research into improving communication during heavy-lift operations. He discovered that visual communication is a very valuable addition to communication by...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 10, 2021 | Heavy lift, News, Offshore
The world’s largest vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed the single-lift removal of the former DP3 gas production topsides from Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay development in the East Irish Sea. This follows the removal of the adjacent DP4 topsides and...
by Mariska Buitendijk | May 17, 2021 | Heavy lift, News, Offshore
On behalf of Aibel, Heerema’s heavy lift vessel Sleipnir has executed the inshore integration lifts for Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup P2 topsides at the GMC yard in Gismarvik, Norway. Before that, the platform had been transported from Thailand to Norway by heavy...
