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‘Wildebeest’ Out? tted with custom crane cable

Lankhorst Ropes supplied crane spe- Working with Lagendijk, Lankhorst a diameter of 46mm and will be used for electric / hydraulic offshore subsea crane cialists Lagendijk Equipment with a Ropes and the in-house engineering de- deepsea lifting operations. Due to the also includes active heave compensation custom crane cable for a 40 tons AHC partment of Casar wire rope produced extreme depth, a high performance wire (AHC). The Lagendijk crane will be knuckleboom crane. The cable and crane the tailor made crane wire. The wire rope was required which could meet suitable for work at up to 3,000m with a will be installed on Edison Chouest Off- rope is a 3,100 m crane cable wire with the subsea conditions. The custom built SWL of 10 tons at sea state 4.

shore’s ‘Wildebeest’ offshore support vessel servicing drilling platforms.

Lagendijk Equipment specializes in building service cranes, cargo cranes, and special crane projects for the off- shore, dredging and shipping industries.

Enerpac completed testing of the world’s largest offshore gantry crane at its Hengelo manufactur- ing facility in the Netherlands.

The crane will be used in the construction of a 5,400 m bridge for an offshore highway on Re- union Island by French consortium

Bouygues Travaux Publics, VINCI

Construction Grands Projets, Dodin

Campenon Bernard and Demathieu

Bard Construction. The Over Head

Travel Crane (OHTC) comprises two pairs of lifting beams, with an overall width of 30m, and a lifting capacity of 4,800 tonnes for lifting, moving and lowering the concrete blocks for the offshore highway.

The crane is classi? ed as A5 for the structure classi? cation and M5 for the mechanism classi? cation and designed to operate in tropical marine conditions (IP66). www.marinelink.com 103

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