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Heavy lift ship

A heavy lift ship is a vessel designed to move loads that


cannot be handled by normally equipped ships. They are
: semi-submersibles capable of lifting another ship out of
the water and transporting it; and vessels that augment
unloading facilities at inadequately equipped ports.
 Heavy lift ships, with cranes with a combined lift capacity of
hundreds of tons, can easily lift super heavy cargoes and carry
super long cargoes up to 100 meters on the main deck. The box-
shape hold can be adjusted to multiple decks. The ships are
regarded as the right carriers for whole set of equipment and
project cargoes.
 Heavy Lift Vessels are specifically designed to carry heavy or
oversized cargo. These vessels meet the rising demand for block
or modular transportation for fully assembled plants and/or
equipment. Most of the heavy lift ships are self-sustaining
diversified cargo handlers. They can be equipped with gantry or
telescopic auxiliary cranes for the conventional load-on/ load-off
ramps for Ro-Ro movements, and have semi-submersible
capabilities to accommodate float-on/float-off operations. In some
instances operators extend their activities to cover inland transit
with multi-wheeled self-propelling transporters enabling carriage of
cargo from the point of manufacture to final destination.
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 The term "heavy lift ship" is ambiguous. By one
definition, a heavy lift ship is an ocean-going vessel
capable of submerging its large open deck to well
below the water's surface, thus allowing another vessel
to be floated over it and landed on a dry-dock-build
mounted on the heavy lift ship's deck. The heavy lift
ship then rises out of the water by pumping out its
ballast tanks in a process very similar to the operation
of a floating dry-dock. The transported vessel then
rides on the deck of the heavy lift ship for the voyage to
its destination. This type of ship is also known more
precisely as a Float-On / Float-Off [ FLO-FLO] Ship
 By another definition, a heavy-lift ship is a ship
that is specially designed and capable of
loading and unloading heavy and bulky items.
It typically has booms of sufficient capacity to
accommodate a single lift of over 100 tons.
This might be better known as a Crane Ship.
The Crane Ship mission is to off-load
containers and other outsized cargo from non
self-sustaining cargo ships offshore, or at bare
or underdeveloped ports.
 A semi-submersible heavy-lift ship, or also known as
a "flo/flo" (for float-on/float-off), has a long and low well
deck between a forward pilot house and an after
machinery space. In superficial appearance, it is
somewhat similar to a dry bulk carrier or some forms of
oil tanker. Its ballast tanks can be flooded to lower the
well deck below the water's surface, allowing oil
platforms, other vessels, or other floating cargo to be
moved into position for loading. The tanks are then
pumped out, and the well deck rises to shoulder the
load. To balance the cargo, the various tanks can be
pumped unevenly.
construction of a heavy lift
vessel
 The Nordic Heavy crane vessel will measure 181 x 46 m and with a
depth of 16 m. Its draft will range between 7-11 m. Being a ship
shaped vessel as opposed to a semisubmersible design, the Vessel
will be able to perform a speed of 13-14 knots when transiting from
one major operating area to another, meaning that a typical North
Sea to the U.S. Gulf transit would take about 15 days, U.S. Gulf to
West Africa (Angola) about 20 days and West Africa (Angola) to the
North Sea (Rotterdam) about 15 days. Semisubmersible crane
vessels would typically use at least twice the time. The Vessel's
propulsion system includes two 5.5 MW main thrusters. In addition
in order to comply with DP 3 requirements, the Vessel has four
retractable thrusters; each of 3.2 MW and a bow thruster of 2.7 MW.
The retractable thrusters can also provide additional thrust during
transit. The Vessel will be equipped with six 5.765 MW Rolls Royce /
Bergen Diesel generator sets.
 The Vessel will be equipped with a 5,000 tonne
revolving mast crane which has been designed
and developed by Huisman Special Equipment
BV of Schiedam, the Netherlands .The Vessel
can lift a maximum of 5,000 tonnes over the
stern and 4,000 tonnes revolving. The crane
capacity is further described under Crane
Diagram. For general support, the Vessel will
be equipped with a 40-tonne fixed
 knuckle-boom crane which will be located on the forward starboard
deck area of the Vessel. The Vessel will also be equipped with a [ ]
tonne crawler crane.
The Vessel's features include deepwater lowering capability which is
summarized in the table under Subsea Lowering Capability.
The Vessel has a clear deck of about 5,500 m². It further has a
deckload of 10 tonnes/m² throughout meaning that it can transport
reasonably large modules over long ocean distances thus reducing
the need for barges or other transportation units, reducing interface
needs.
On the Vessel's starboard side, extra strengthening is provided for
future potential installation of pipelaying facility.
References

 http://www.nordicheavylift.com

 http://www.globalsecurity.org

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