OHT Heavy Lift Ship Completes Tricky Balancing Act

摘要

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 a 180 meter long floating dry dock. OHT was chartered by Promaritime International to transport the dry dock, ADBS-1, from Abu Dhabi, around the Cape of Good Hope, to Brest, France. The project got underway at the end of April in Abu Dhabi, where the dry-dock measuring 180 meters long by 37 meters wide, was loaded and diagonally stowed on the Hawk's deck. The overhang of the dock, measuring approximately 32 meters long on each side of the Hawk, in combination with the vessel's beam of 55.5 meters resulted in an overall transport width of close to 120 meters.