Ceres container cranes DESIGN MOTIONS CERES CONTAINER CRANES TRANSPORT Project Summary In March 2001, the last shipment of 3 fully erected container cranes arrived at the Ceres... terminal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from China. A total of 9 cranes in 3 separate shipments were delivered by ZPMC, using their own converted transport ships. These post Panamax... container cranes, claimed to be the largest in the world at that time, each weighted approximately 1,320 t and towered over 110 m above the ship decks during transportation. The...

diameter piles needed to be transported to the construction site and installed (hammered in). For the transport, a small cargo barge was selected. The transport and upending..., the first set of foundation piles were successfully transported and installed, see also the photograph below. Scope of WorkThe project scope included:Project PhotographsPhotographs... courtesy of FCI Constructors, Inc./Cleveland Bridge California, Inc. specialists in marine heavy-lift transportation engineering naval architects marine surveyors If you can read...

TITAN crane transport TITAN CRANE ANALYSIS Project Summary The floating crane TITAN was built in Germany in 1941 and moved to Long Beach, California, in 1948, where it has been... Channel) and the dry transport option, using a self-propelled heavy-lift vessel was pursued. Because of the 117 m height restriction of the Bridge of the Americas, the crane boom had... to be partly lowered during the transport. In order to confirm transport feasibility, a detailed structural analysis of the crane structure was performed. A complete survey...

magazines in the marine industry, and wrote a chapter for a textbook on naval architecture, see also the following list.Heavy-Lift Transport Ships - Overview of Existing Fleet... at the 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering, San Diego, CA, June 10-15, 2007. OMAE Paper 29751;Container Crane Transport Options: Self-Propelled Ship... versus Towed Barge, presented at RINA conference on Marine Heavy Transport & Lift, London, 20-21 September 2005;Heavy-Lift Ships, Chapter 52 of the updated "Ship Design...

SOOSAN dry dock STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS SOOSAN DRY DOCKProject SummaryIn March 1997, the dry dock SOOSAN was dry transported from Taranto, Italy to Nantong, China by the heavy-lift... ship MIGHTY SERVANT 3. Because of the dimensions of the dock, it was overhanging the ship's stern as well as its sides. In order to ensure transport feasibility, a structural... when subjected to dynamic loadings during the transport. The FEM analysis showed that the beam and plate stresses were within the allowable limits. The output plot above shows the von...