The new-generation Orca-class heavy lift ships under construction for Germany’s SAL Heavy Lift will feature a networked suite of Sperry Marine navigation, steering and heading management systems Sperry Marine’s deliveries for the
A series of new-generation heavy lift ships includes a methanol dual fuel hybrid propulsion plant as part of German operator SAL Heavy Lift’s commitment to decarbonization. Called the Orca Class, they are
Norwegian specialist transportation and installation contractor OHT has released details of a challenging contract earlier this year that saw its semi-submersible heavy lift ship M/V Hawk doing a 40-day balancing act with
Five Crowley tugboats recently worked together to load the LP Odyssey, a self-propelled, semi-submersible mobile spacecraft launch platform, onto a heavy-lift ship for Barber Moss Ship Management on behalf of Sea Launch/S7
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a Marine Accident Brief on the March 29, 2019 incident in which the heavy lift vessel MV Hawk slammed into an electrical test barge at
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi has issued a warrant for the arrest of the heavy lift ship MV Hawk. The MV Hawk was at the center of
JUNE 5, 2018 — ABB has secured a series of contracts that will see nine heavy lift vessels servicing the extension of Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oil field use its OCTOPUS software. The vessels
OCTOBER 6, 2016 — Korean heavy lift shipping company TPI Megaline is using ABB’s Octopus predictive software to help ensure safe and efficient operations on its semisubmersible heavy transport vessel Mega Caravan.
JUNE 16, 2015—Brodosplit Shipyard, Split, Croatia, recently delivered the heavy lift ship Fairmaster to Dutch shipowner Jumbo. The 14,000 dwt ship is 152.6 meters long and 27.4 meters wide, with a draft
MAY 6, 2014 — Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has started a study into a new ultra large V-class Heavy Marine Transport Vessel (HTV) even larger than the giant Dockwise Vanguard. Dockwise Vanguard,
