Jumbo Shipping, the Dutch maritime heavy lift transport and engineering contractor, and SAL Heavy Lift, the German breakbulk and project cargo specialist, are commencing operations with their joint venture. The Jumbo-SAL-Alliance combines both fleets and...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Jumbo has developed a machine to remove persistent flash rust caused by the removal of temporarily welded securings onboard its heavy-lift vessels. The device removes flash rust faster than the existing methods,...Read more
Jumbo has completed the transport part of its largest transport and installation job to date. Using its heavy lift vessels as well as subcontracted deck carriers forty monopiles, 120 monopile sections and forty transition pieces...Read more
Jumbo has shipped a 1,435-tonne shiploader measuring 135 x 25 x 43 metres. The piece of equipment was loaded on the heavy-lift vessel Jumbo Kinetic and transported from Vietnam to Canada. The shipping company spent...Read more
Jumbo’s heavy-lift vessel Fairpartner has set a new lift record in the port of New Orleans while unloading two hydrocracking reactors for an oil major. Read more
dship Carriers is expecting a new vessel, the F-500 type multipurpose vessel MV Ronnie. The vessel has just been launched at the yard and is designed to reduce fuel consumption and increase stowage flexibility. Read more
PRESS RELEASE – AAL Shipping has delivered 22,400cbm of stacker reclaimer components from Dalian in North-East China to Port Hedland in Western Australia. The cargo, destined for the Fortescue Metals Group’s Eliwana Mine and Rail...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – BigLift has transported and installed two 1,700-tonne Grab Ship Unloaders with its heavy-lift vessel Happy Star. The contract was carried out for client IUK. Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Spliethoff has acquired an additional P14-type vessel. The vessel is renamed Plantijngracht (former name: ‘St. Pauli’) and reflagged to the Dutch register. The vessel is currently in Algeciras to undergo maintenance and...Read more
Jumbo has transported two Ship-to-Shore container cranes, a cargo in excess of 1500 tonnes, from Taicang, China, to the Port of Immingham on the UK’s east coast. To ship two cranes this size in one...Read more
Crane Worldwide Logistics in Japan and Chipolbrok are joining forces to create a door-to-door heavy-lift service for clients shipping cargo between Europe, the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Middle East, Asia and the Americas.Read more
PRESS RELEASE – With the 2600-metric-tonne Skyhook, Huisman has designed and built the largest Slewing Jib Quayside Crane in the world. It has now lifted its first batch of offshore wind monopiles. The monopiles with...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Van Oord’s heavy lift vessel Svanen has installed the final foundation for the Danish Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind farm in the Baltic Sea. To reduce the underwater noise, a “double big bubble...Read more
The structural assessment process for heavy-lift transport projects on multi-purpose vessels can vastly benefit from existing finite element (FE) models, says DNV-GL. The simulation model can help to quickly determine if and how super heavy...Read more
The first new movable steel section of the Wantijbrug, near Dordrecht, the Netherlands, has been hoisted into place. The bridge is part of the N3 motorway. The section weighs about 110 tonnes and measures 15...Read more
With the installation of a 1,240-tonne propylene bullet, Mammoet has completed a large-scale construction project at the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Nigeria. For two years, over 100 Mammoet engineers were on-site to transport...Read more
United Heavy Lift (UHL) has signed an agreement with DUO Shipping to be the company’s exclusive commercial representative in Turkey. The contract takes immediate effect and will help the German project carrier to expand its...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – AAL has moved two giant jib cranes from China to Jebel Ali. The company deployed one its largest vessels for the project and still, one of the main modules came within 20...Read more
Shipping company Chipolbrok is said to be in talks with a Chinese shipyard for the construction of up to four new 62,000 dwt multipurpose vessels with a total value of USD 120 million. Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Rotterdam stevedore company RHB Stevedoring & Warehousing has bought a second mobile shore crane for loading and unloading of heavy-lift, offshore and project cargo. The company has purchased a Liebherr LHM 550...Read more
