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Heavy Lifters for Offshore Renewables

Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) will signed to match the future requirements enter the offshore renewables and in- of the offshore wind industry, allowing it Vessel Dimensions stallation market with a new heavy lift to transport and install up to 10 x 1,500t Length, o.a. ............................216.3 m transport and installation vessel, a cus- ultra-large jacket foundations or 11 x Length, bpp ............................204.3 m tomized Ulstein Alfa Lift design devel- 2,000t XXL monopiles plus transition Beam (molded) ...........................56 m oped by Ulstein Design & Solutions BV pieces for the largest anticipated Wind Depth (main deck) ..................12.6 m (UDSBV) and OHT. Turbine Generators. Draft (design) ................................8 m

There is one ? rm order with three op- “When we approached Ulstein with our Draft (submerged max.)...........27.6 m tions to build the ship at China Merchant intended strategy to enter the offshore Service speed .......................13 knots

Heavy Industry (CMHI), ready for action renewables market and the idea of add- Installed power ..............4 x 6,875 kW in 2021. The dynamically-positioned, ing crane capacity to a semi-submers- Propulsion thrusters ......3 x 5,500 kW 48,000 DWT vessel is designed to per- ible heavy lift transport vessel, UDSBV Retractable thruster ......1 x 3,000 kW form heavy lift crane operations with the presented their Alfa Lift solution on the Tunnel thrusters (fwd) ...3 x 3,000 kW main deck submerged, a patent-pend- spot,” said Torgeir E. Ramstad, CEO at Positioning system ......................DP 2 ing design combining the bene? ts of a OHT. “That was a direct ‘hit’, as it allows Class ........................................DNV-GL semi-submersible transport vessel with us to enter the installation market, at the Deck strength ........................30 t/m2 a large, 3,000 mt lifting capacity main same time expanding on our capabilities crane from Liebherr. The vessel is de- in OHT’s core market.’”

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Photo of the Week :

Heavy lift vessel Maple Lotta with cargo from Egypt. Today, this vessel sails with the companies to create photos of merchant at open sea. Name Maple Lotta. Boettcher started with ships with his unique visual language. He Visit his website:

Herbert Boettcher worked out the photo on his worldwide long-time project Seamotion has been working as a graduate designer www.HerbertBoettcher.com a heavy lift vessel during his trip through in 2004. for more than 20 years and has already

Europe, the Asian part of Turkey and his Boettcher is a German professional pho- received numerous awards for his applied Contact him at: passing the Suez Canal. He ? ew back home tographer working worldwide for shipping and free photographic work. [email protected] 8 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • AUGUST 2018 © Herbert Boettcher 2018

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