Dutch heavy lift specialist Van Seumeren held an open house on Saturday 13 February at its new Schiedam facility to allow visitors to see both a 2,200t load out and its new 2,000t Platform Twinring Containerised (PTC) crane.
The heavy shift operation saw the load out of a pipe laying unit built by Huisman Itrec, just next door to Van Seumeren’s facility, which had to be moved about 100m from factory floor to dockside and onto a barge.
Van Seumeren used 88 axle lines of self-propelled modular trailers, comprising 14 six-wheelers and one four-wheeler. The operation was concluded smoothly in about two hours.
The pipe laying unit is destined for the Saipem 7000 semi-submersible crane ship, which lays claim to having the two biggest cranes in the world on it, with 7,000t capacity each. The new unit will allow it to lay pipes at up to 3,000m underwater. Saipem is an Italian offshore contractor.
The new PTC crane, designed by Van Seumeren and built by Huisman Itrec, is designed to be transportable in standard sized containers when disassembled and is Van Seumeren’s response to the similarly-transportable Mammoet Sliding Gantry.
