May 3 - Royal Wagenborg has loaded a bridge weighing 760 tonnes on board Wagenborg Barge 8, in the German city of Wilhelmshaven.
The bridge was driven onto the pontoon using self-propelled modular trailers (SPMT) and was subsequently sea fastened. It will be transported 1,500 miles (2,414 km) to Kirkenes in the north of Norway.
Assembled by Schachtbau Nordhausen, the bridge measures 120 m in length, 13.5 m in width and 19.5 m in height.
Dortmund-based heavy transport provider August Alborn has purchased two EuroCompact lowbed semi-trailers from TII Scheuerle.
Mammoet is deploying its 3,200-tonne capacity PTC210-DS ring crane to lift a huge A-frame for Van Oord’s installation vessel Svanen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
UK-based lifting solutions and equipment provider Southern Cranes has purchased 10 Grove all-terrain cranes from Manitowoc as it updates its fleet.
Shanghai Shipbuilding Research and Design Institute (SDARI), in collaboration with DNV and Toepfer Transport, has developed two state-of-the-art multipurpose vessel designs: Octopus 12.6 and Octopus 12.
Colonel’s Island Terminal at the USA’s port of Brunswick had its busiest month ever for ro-ro cargo during March 2024 handling 77,236 units, an increase of 21 percent over the same month of last year.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has joined global public-private partnership the First Movers Coalition (FMC), which is working to scale the most critical, emerging climate technologies required to decarbonise the world’s heavy-emitting sectors.
