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DUTCH OFFSHORE REVIEW

Step by step, the 60,000-tonne is loaded onto the .Armada Intrepid Dockwise Vanguard ship-shaped FPSO we transported on the

Dockwise Vanguard. Weighing 60,000-tonne (42,000-tonne plus ballast), it is among the

The Vanguard top three heaviest cargos ever transported.

That, in combination with its ship-shape, with a 245m-long, 45m-beam hull, makes of ocean transport the this project quite interesting.”

Unlike normal loads, which are positioned

All three projects are feathers in on the ’s 275m x 70m

Dockwise Vanguard

Heavy transport ? rm Dockwise

Dockwise’s cap. However, transporting the deck by ballasting the vessel beneath the performed a market ? rst with the

FPSO is the biggest and serves to prove water line and ? oating the load across its transport of a ship-shaped FPSO, the ship-shaped FPSO transport concept. beam, the , which is too long

Armada Intrepid

Being able to transport FPSOs using a heavy to ? oat across the beam, had to be ? oated Armada Intrepid the . transport vessel o