Original news was published on 09 December, 2014

SAL Heavy Lift has completed a series of complex and sensitive shipments totaling more than 100,000 freight tons for the Ichthys LNG Project near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

SAL Heavy Lift was contracted by the project’s freight forwarder SDV, Asia, for five consecutive shipments. Cargo was loaded in the ports of Sattahip in Thailand, Masan and Busan in South Korea and Shanghai, China.

SAL’s type 176 vessel Regine, with its two 700-ton-capacity cranes, open hatch capability and third aft-mount crane of 350-ton capacity, was selected as the ideal candidate to provide utmost flexibility, cost efficiency and safety to the project, SAL said in a statement.

The cargo included two acid gas removal units that weighed more than 800 tons apiece and measured 42 meters long, 10.5 meters wide and 10.8 meters high, as well as two radiant convertor modules at 217 tons each and heights of more than 25 meters

The radiant convertor modules offered a significant challenge since the client required them to be lifted with a single crane in the same shipment. Lifting height, rigging geometry and clearances became a complex problem, which took some time to successfully resolve, SAL said.

All shipments were discharged at the Ichthys LNG module offloading facility.

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