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HEAVY LIFTERS (Photo courtesy of Heila Cranes SpA) (Photo courtesy of Roll Group)

RollDock Shipping: sophisticated loading/unloading systems for wind turbine component transportation. provide maximum ? exibility and deal with all types of ton weight and 27.9-meter height. The company owns

ZPMC: Container cranes and RTGs docks and cranes, including weak docks. ? ve dock-type vessels, all of which have the choice

Dongbang Shipping and the company’s subcontrac- https://engineeredheavyservices.com of three loading modes: RoRo, ? oat-in/? oat-out and tor Engineered Heavy Services have delivered two

LoLo.

ZPMC ship-to-shore container cranes weighing about

RollDock Shipping Tech Two on-board cranes of 350 tons each were used to 1,600 tons each, and of six rubber tired gantry cranes

RollDock Shipping recently transported 66 transi- load and discharge all of the transition pieces using to the SSA terminal in Manzanillo, Mexico from Long tion pieces to be used in the construction of a large specialized equipment and keeping the rigging height

Beach, California. Engineering, sea fastenings, load- ing and unloading equipment on board the Dongbang German wind farm from Aviles, Spain to Eemshaven, as short as possible. Conventional sea fastening meth-

Shipping delivery vessel were provided by EHS and The Netherlands in a shipping project that represented ods were deemed unsuitable for the safe transporta- a major challenge as the components are ‘pushing the tion of the cargo, so a custom-made grillage design the operation was completed by the company’s per- sonnel. This international project involved specialist envelope’ because of the cargo weight, the lifting ca- was devised by Coordinadora Internacional de Cargas pacity of one crane and the available dock space, all of in collaboration with RollDock to enable rapid turn- staff from the U.S., Panama, Korea, Singapore, Mex- which needed to be utilized to the maximum. The tran- around times in port.

ico and Malaysia. The sea fastenings, primarily pro- vided by EHS, included an erector set of equipment sition pieces serve as a connection between the wind To date, 34 transition pieces have been transported from EHS’s sister company Nordholm Rentals, much turbine and the base that is anchored to the seabed. from Aviles to Eemshaven in ? ve shipments. Roll-

RollDock was employed by Coordinadora Internacio- Dock expects to transport the remaing 32 pieces in of this equipment being sourced from a recently com- pleted project in Long Beach. Bracing, loading and nal de Cargas, which was responsible for the logistical four more shipments over the next two months to sup- sea-fastening of the STS machines was completed in part of the project, to take care of the transportation port construction of the German wind farm which is a very short period of only 14 days and employed a by sea of the 66 transition pieces in a vertica manner, expected to be operational by the end of 2019.

Further information: www.roll-group.com crane-moving system that was developed specially to representing a logistical challenge due to their 330- 66 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • MARCH 2018

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