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World’s Largest World’s Largest way unit expected to be available for the

Motion Compensated rental market by the end of 2015. Safe-

Gangway

Van Aalst Group introduced a new way claims workability in up to 3.5-m motion compensated gangway system wave heights. Van Aalst’s planned intro- duction adds roll compensation, vertical under the brand name Safeway. Devel- oped and built in the Netherlands, the height adjustment and a weight balanced boom construction to the gangway types

Safeway gangway bridge is designed to now dominating the market. These in- make it possible for vessels to land at a broad range of offshore constructions, novations aim to increase the uptime of staff and equipment on any offshore in- varying from small unmanned installa- stallation. tions in the Southern North Sea to large www.vanaalstmarine.com offshore production units in the North- ern North Sea. The ? rst Safeway unit

Nitto Chemical Industry: is currently under construction under

Plaseal NF-23

Nitto Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. is

Offshore Overhead Gantry Crane a specialized sealing compound maker for Offshore Highway which has been producing sealing prod- ucts that comply with 2010 FTP Code.

Plaseal NF-23 is a high-spec ? re-tight Enerpac won a contract to build what is reported to be

Above: Enerpac compound for ships, passing IMO FTP the world’s largest offshore overhead gantry crane for is building the code for A-class cable transits. Plaseal French consortium Bouygues Travaux Publics, VINCI world’s largest, offshore overhead

NF is a one-component type of seal- Construction and Demathieu Bard Construction. The gantry crane for ing compound, designed for ease of use crane – with a lifting capacity of 4,800 tonnes - will construction of with a comparatively low speci? c grav- be used to install the pre-cast viaduct columns for a

Photo: Van Aalst the Reunion Island ity of approximately 0.8, helping to save new coastal highway around Reunion Island, located offshore highway.

weight. Plaseal NF-23 is ? exible in that east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The 5,400 m

Bureau Veritas class, with the ? rst Safe- when using the solution, cables can con- coastal highway (Route du Littoral) will connect Saint tact each other, meaning that cables can Denis - the administrative capital of La Réunion - with La Possession. It re- be arranged freely. places the existing coastal road, which is exposed to falling rocks and ? ooding

E: [email protected] from swells and tropical storms. www.nitto-kasei.co.jp

The Bouygues Travaux Publics, VINCI Construction and Demathieu Bard

Construction consortium is building a barge to construct the offshore highway.

Enerpac is supplying an offshore crane with 4,800-tonne lifting capacity for the barge. The barge will be used to pick up concrete precast foundation elements (gravity base, pile head and segments) at the harbor of Reunion Island, and position them on the seabed. The Enerpac offshore crane will be used to make at least 200 foundation block lifts.

Construction of the 4,800 ton offshore crane has already started at Enerpac

Integrated Solutions manufacturing facility in Hengelo, The Netherlands.

New Automatic Survivor www.enerpac.com

Locator Light

ACR Electronics, Inc. released the next

Right: Artist’s impression of generation of its survivor locator life the Reunion Island offshore jacket lights. The new ACR HemiLight highway. (Source: Vinci) 3 is designed to be a more affordable and compact, featuring an LED light which

Below: Enerpac’s overhead gantry crane on the offshore illuminates brighter than its predeces- highway construction barge sors. The HemiLight 3 is automatically (rendered image).

activated when it comes into contact with water. The high-intensity ? ashing

LED light exceeds the IMO SOLAS bat- tery life regulations by providing more than 10 hours of functionality upon acti- vation. It can also be deactivated simply by pressing the OFF button. www.acrartex.com

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