Mammoet Uses Elebia Hooks to Unload Panamax Vessel
International lifting and transport specialist Mammoet used 5t capacity automatic hooks from Elebia to keep riggers at safe distance and speed-up discharge of 1,000 industrial-sized ābig bagsā from a Panamax ship at a port in Westdorpe, Holland in January. Mammoet, which has its own multi-purpose terminal further north at the mouth of the Ghent Canal in Terneuzen, will unload approximately 30,000t of bulk from the vessel every six weeks, as freight business continues to sprawl away from larger Antwerp ports further east.
Design: Contract for New Product Tanker Design
A contract covering the design of a 4,200dwt oil product tanker has been won by NVC -Design. It represents the first ship to be built to a concept developed by Rolls-Royce, a design which combines a tailor-made hull design with a diesel mechanical propulsion system based on twin Ulstein Aquamaster Azipull azimuth thrusters with pulling propellers. This design has been given the type number NVC 604 PT. The vessel has been contracted by Norway's Bergen Tankers AS, and it will be built by RMK Marine Shipyard in Turkey, scheduled for delivery in September 2005. Rolls-Royce is to deliver the design and the Azipull thrusters. The concept is intended to provide a number of advantagesā¦
