Jumbo Shipping’s HLV Fairpartner has successfully discharged the longest load in the company’s history. The load consisted of two tanker barges, one of which weighed over 1330 tonnes and had a record length of 135 m. Watch https://www.swzonline.nl/weblog/3[the video of the unloading operation] on our website.
At the end of October, the two tanker barges were loaded on board in Nantong, China. The 135m long barge is the longest piece of cargo ever lifted by a Jumbo heavy lift vessel. The combination of length, weight and discharging method produced a record lift: the 1300 tonne load was lifted over portside at an outreach of 31 m.
The second barge had only slightly smaller dimensions: 1100 tonnes and a length of 130 m. After being stacked on top of each other, the ships’ crew safely lashed and secured them before starting their long journey to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, via Cape Good Hope.
On arrival, the Fairpartner’s twin 900 tonne mastcranes easily lifted the barges from each other and the deck. One after the other they were discharged into the water, thereby once again concluding a record delivery safely and on time.
