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Mammoet confirms that as of 8 January 8, 2020, the acquisition of ALE has been completed, and the businesses will now operate as one company under the Mammoet brand. Over the coming months a fully developed integration plan will be rolled out that will focus on bringing the two organisations together while maintaining safe and..

ALE and Giant Taiwan have undertaken a joint venture (JV) to provide the onshore handling, transportation and storage of wind turbine foundations for phase 2 of Taiwan’s Formosa 1 offshore windfarm project. This phase is seeing 20 additional turbines installed 6km off Miaoli County in the Taiwan Strait, raising its power generation capability from its..

ALE and J Murphy & Sons (Murphy) have announced a new collective partnership to offer comprehensive linear winch hire, pipe pulling and installation engineering services worldwide. Land & Marine is a subsidiary of the engineering infrastructure contractor Murphy, based in the UK and specialising in landfall and outfall operations, pipe and cable pulling. It owns..

ALE is optimising offshore wind project costs by designing a new modular transport frame for carrying transition pieces (TPs) within marshalling ports. Designed in-house, the new Transition Piece Carrier has been developed as a more cost-effective alternative of transporting the TPs rather than using cranes to handle them. Overall project efficiency is delivered as the..

ALE has used a unique offshore skidding technique for the first time to assist with the offshore installation of the satellite platform (SP) topside, weighing 2,565t, for the Korchagin oil field development project in Russia. ALE was contracted to perform the engineering, weighing, jacking and load-out of the SP topside, as well as the mooring..

ALE was contracted to undertake a variety of services for the Wikinger project across two project sites, Cadiz and Ferrol in Spain. The scope in Ferrol was divided into three main parts: weighing 12 jackets, transporting 29 jackets within Navantia Fene Shipyard and loading-out the 29 jackets. ALE commenced the project in December 2015 and..

ALE is approaching the final stages of its load-out operations for the Upper Zakum 750 Island Surface Facilities (UZ750) Project, one of the world’s largest offshore oil field projects based 84km offshore, northwest of Abu Dhabi, UAE. The contractor secured the scope to deliver almost 100 different modules to the north, south, central and west..

The world’s largest capacity land-based crane, the AL.SK350, has performed its inaugural lifts in Brazil, using its 4,000t winch system and high speed slew. ALE is currently using the AL.SK350 crane to lift and install approximately 40 modules, weighing up to 3,000t, onto the P-74 Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) in the south..

Siemens has awarded a four-year Crane Framework Agreement to heavy-lift specialist ALE for the supply and deployment of cranes, specialised transport equipment and personnel. The contract is for the period 2016-2019, and has a value in excess of EUR 55 million. It covers Siemens’ harbour-based offshore wind sites in the UK and Germany. Approximately three..

ALE has loaded-out the Malikai Tension Leg Platform (TLP), weighing 27,500t, at Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE) West in Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia. The actual skidding was completed in just twelve hours marking another major milestone for the Malikai Project. This load-out was part of the contracted scope of work for the Malikai Project, which..

ALE has completed the final load-in operations for the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier project with the completion of its work on the second carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, at Rosyth Royal Dockyard, UK. The project involves the construction of the largest complex warships ever to be built for the Royal Navy. The carriers were fabricated in..

ALE were contracted to perform the float-over ballasting during the SylWin Alpha platform installation. ALE provided all necessary equipment and designed bespoke control and monitoring systems to perform the float-over ballasting during installation. The Sylwin Alpha was transported by the Nordic Giant 101 cargo barge from the Sylwin Alpha fabrication site in Warnemünde, Germany, to..

The latest innovation from ALE has been in action for the first time during a large bridge exchange project in the Netherlands. The Mega Jack 800, launched by the company in June this year, has been used in the successful load-out, transport and installation of the new 1,570t Loenerslootse Bridge over the Amsterdam-Rijn canal in..

ALE unveiled its latest innovation, the Mega Jack 800, designed by the company’s Research and Development division to provide a unique jacking solution. This latest piece of technology to be included in ALE’s Innovation Series, is designed to bridge the gap in the capacities of current solutions and is able to be integrated with other heavylift..

In April the completed Golden Eagle Production, Utilities and Quarters (PUQ) deck for Nexen Petroleum U.K. left Lamprell’s Jebel Ali, UAE facility. As well as an on-schedule and on-budget delivery, Lamprell achieved a new safety record and the ALE load-out of the 13,191.98t deck broke the Guinness World Record for the ‘Heaviest Load Moved by SPMTs’. The deck..

An Australia-based consortium, AG&P ALE Ventures Pty Ltd., harnessing the combined expertise of both ALE and AG&P in an equal partnership, has developed through its own R&D and capital the offshore innovation, the Hydro Deck, to support major projects being executed by its clients around the world. The Hydro Deck becomes the gateway for on-shoring..

Due to the success of the AL.SK190 over the past three years ALE has introduced its second machine of this kind. At ALE’s R&D facility in Breda, the Netherlands, the crane was tested with a 3,600t load, claimed the world’s heaviest lift by a land based crane with 120m boom length. The second 4,300t capacity AL.SK190..

ALE has performed the installation of the 402te leg sections and the 575 te living quarter of the jack up drilling rig for Swecomex in Tuxpan, Mexico. Both maneuvers were carried out using the CC 8800-1 crane. The leg sections installation maneuver was performed with a configuration SFVL: 108m main boom, 12m fixed jib angled..