BigLift’s Happy Rover recently carried a jack-up platform from Rotterdam to La Reunion Island for Enerpac.
The Jack-up consists of a platform of 515 mt and four telescopic legs of 72 mt each. The legs were dismantled from the platform and stowed separately to be installed again upon unloading in La Reunion.
The platform itself has a length of 53.4 m and is 28.6 m wide, which made it a challenging lift for Happy Rover. The lift stayed just within the limits of the crane capacity, counter ballast (both port and starboard side) and stability of the vessel.
Besides this, there was only limited space on each side of the platform when it was turned between the cranes. In order to get more room to play with, both cranes were rigged slightly off-centre.
Offshore Highway
The jack-up platform was designed by Enerpac and will be used to submerge large concrete skirts from the quay level to a designated water depth. Once submerged, a specially designed barge will then float over and lift off the concrete skirts to position them on the foundations of a new offshore highway ‘Route du Littoral’ which is currently under construction in La Reunion.
Watch a video of the operation below (by BigLift).
