When AHT Boa Queen was sailing back after temination of her timecharter at West Africa we managed to fix her for towage of the "Gazprom 1". This former drilling vessel was laid up at La Valetta was towed to Tampico where the ship will be converted into a crane vessel.
For one our regular clients we arranged for transport of two harbour cranes from Dunkirk to Port La Nouvelle.
For this project we contracted tug Waterman and pontoon E 3004. Athough convoy had to shelter for a number of days at Cherbourg and La Corunna due to severe weatherconditions the cranes were safely delivered at Port La Nouvelle.
Through various parties involved we contracted tug Varius and Boabarge 20 for transport of a newbuilt air cushion boat (acb) for the Greek navy. The ACB was built at St Petersburg and had to be delivered at Pireaus. Although the weather restrictions during transport were quite limited the convoy had to shelter for 2 days only at the south coast of portugal and the ACB was safely discharged on Christmas day after a 30 days journey.
Transport of newbuilding hulls and pontoons on board
"Marinus Green"
from Shanghai to Rotterdam.
Transport of newbuilding hulls and pontoons on board
"Boabarge 20 ""
from Shanghai to Rotterdam. For towage of this barge we contracted tug De
Hong.
Transport of newbuilding hulls and pontoons on board
"UR 93" and "UR 94"
from Shanghai to Rotterdam. For this tandem towage we contracted tug De
Jin.
For the above mentioned projects we were also involved in
discharging operations of this floating equipment and further onward transportation, storage, clearance, etc.
For Western Geco we arranged transport of "Coastal
Liner" from Sea of Azov back to Rotterdam on board coaster "Quo
Vadis".
The last few years we have been active for
varous shipbuilders in West France for transports of shipsections by means
of variuos flattop pontoons and tugs such as "Coastal carrier I"
and "Coastal Force" (see below picture).
Time charter of AHT tug Zeus for Account of Transocean
Sedcoforex
For several dredging companied we arrranged for transport
of dredging materials:
from Zeebrugge to Ireland and back to Zeebrugge
from Huelva + Valencia to Ashdod, Israel
from Flushing to Zeebrugge
On behalf of Three Quays Marine Service we provided all
logistics and seafastening of
one unfinished newbuilding yacht which was loaded into the famous Dok V of
Verolme which
was transported as one complete package on board Blue Marlin from Rotterdam
to Dubai.
For a Spanish Forwarding Company we transported
brand new columms for the Lyondell factory at Rotterdam. Columms were
transported on board boa barge 17. We also contracted tug Barracuda for
towage of this barge (see picture).
For the Owners of the floating crane "Donna
Felicia" we arranged a dry tansport from Constantza to St Martha,
Columbia.
After discharging at ST Maria, Boabarge 7 and tug Boa Prince sailed onwards
to Buenos Aires to load Jackup barge "JUP 111" for Stolt Offshore
and transported this one safely to Douala in Cameroon.
On the ballast trip back to Stavanger we also arranged for a crane move of
two container
cranes at Las Palmas.
We contracted AHT Kigoria for towage of
LB 4000 from Gdansk to Setubal (via Bergen).
About 6 months later when LB 4000 was completely refurbished at the yard in
Setubal
we contracted tug Suhaili for onward towage to Angola.
For one of our Mexican clients we contracted the tug Smitwijs Singapore
for towage of Accomodation
rig Borgholm Dolphin from Haugesund to the Bay of Campeche.
After a succesful charter of almost 2 years; we again contracted SW
Singapore to tow
back "The Dolphin" to Belfast.
We arranged for a transport of some splitbarges and a
crane vessel owned bij Beheermij.
BV van Dijke from Rotterdam to Takoradi in Ghana.
At the North Sea we have also been active in variuos
transports of cranes.
We shipped a Gottwald crane from Rotterdam to Hamburg for HAPO barges and
for SNCM-LMI we arranged for a transport of two cranes from Dunkirk to
Cherbourg (see pictures)
For the well known America's Cup Winning Team Allinghi we did various
transports of their two identical racing yachts, following boats
and loose equipment.
We did the pre-haulage from Cherbourg to Antwerp on board coaster Lis Weber
whereafter
we arranged for onward shipment to Los Angeles.
For Account Saipem Sa we contracted various tugs and
barges to transport the Jackets for
the Yoho project at Nigeria. Tugs Salvage Champion, Augustea Quattro,
Simoon and Suhail
were contracted to tow the loaded barges Boa 28, Boa 7 and 9 and Boa 21
from US Gulf
and Malaysia to the Yoho offshore field at Nigeria.
On behalf of Grand Circle Cruise Line the semi submersible
vessel "Eide Transporter" was
fixed to safely transport the inland cruise vessel "Debussy" from
Fos sur Mer to Rotterdam.
For "The
World" project in Dubai we arranged transport of tug Coastal Force
and Multicat "Coastal Defender" on board Jumbo vessel
"Fairload" from Rotterdam
to Dubai.
For Boa Offshore A/S we arranged for towage of
Verolme Dok loaded on Boabarge 19 from Rotterdam to Desan yard in Tuzla. View the
dimension of the dock; the dock was cut in various pieces in order to load
and transport it safely on the barge. The Tug Englishman was contracted for
towage of the barge to Tuzla and empty back to Stavanger.
At request of Ugland we arranged for towages of their
laden barges from Antwerp and Rotterdam to the Melkoya LNG plant in
Hammerfest.
In close cooperation with Kotug of Rotterdam the tugs RT Magic, Alphonse
Letzer and Varius performed in total 7 towages to Norway.
In close co-operation with Ton Kooren Int. Marine Services BV we arranged for all port clearance and towage of Damen 'Dok I" to Schelde yard in Flushing.
The floating dock had to be repaired at Flushing and towage from Schiedam to Schelde yard was performed by Italian tug Marzamemi (102 ts bp)..
A few weeks later, after completion of repairs at Flushing, tug Hellas (70 tsbp) arranged for towage back to Damen yard at Schiedam.
All local tug assistance in Rotterdam was performed by Kotug.
Dalia Project.
From various European ports to Offshore Angola.
Totally arranged for
-5 barges
Boabarge 22 and Boabarge 21 (92 x 31.5 x 6.7 mtrs each)
Boabarge 17 (80 x 22 x 5.2 mtrs)
Viking barge 3 and Viking barge 6 (91 x 27.5 x 6.1 mtrs each)
-6 tugs
Marzamemi - 101 ts bp
Augustea 4 - 70 ts bp
Boa Master – 50 ts bp
Koral – 60 ts bp
Jantar – 60 ts bp
Warlock – 60 ts bp
On the picture Viking barge 6 leaving with Augustea 4 from Le Trait from for Angola.
For Dredging International we arranged for transport of dredging equipment from Ghent to Sagunto. Equipment included Cutter scution dredger 'Rubens" with a draft of 3.5 mtrs and weight above 3000 tons. Boabarge 22 and tug Jantar were used as transporting vessels and the pictures are showing the loading operation at Ghent.
Attached a picture of barge E3501 laden with new pipe carrying lift which was built for installatian vessel Polaris .. We fixed tug Fighter for towage of laden barge frm Newcastle to Schiedam. Also we arranged fro the port clearance in Schiedam.
On behalf of Harms Bergung we arranged for towage of 4 newblt hulls from Mangalia to Hamburg. Tug Hellas will perform all 4 towages and attached you see a picture of first voyage where tug and hull are passing Dardanelles Staits.
For Mammoet van Oord BV we arranged total 8 transports each with 3 piles of approx 37 mtrs length 220 mts and 3 transitions pieces of 25 mtrs length 240 mts,from Hoboken, Belgium to the Burbo offshore Irish Sea.
Shipments were performed by the vessels mv Hagen and mv Helsinki.
The engineering for transportation was done by LKL in house.
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