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Heavy lift shipping and offshore transport & installation contractor, Jumbo, is using heavy lift slings from Lankhorst Ropes to install offshore wind turbine transition pieces onto monopiles situated in the Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm, Taiwan. In total, the slings will be used to lift and position 80 transition pieces from the Jumbo Javelin. Located in..

Today, 15 April, the heavy lift industry sees a new and powerful constellation unfold. Jumbo Shipping, the Dutch maritime heavy lift transport and engineering contractor, and SAL Heavy Lift, the German-based breakbulk and project cargo specialist, commence operations with their joint venture as the Jumbo-SAL-Alliance. Combining their fleets and all commercial activities, SAL and Jumbo..

SAL, the German-based breakbulk and project cargo specialist, and Jumbo, the Dutch maritime heavy lift transport and installation contractor, have announced their intention to form a joint venture. Combining a large part of their fleets, engineering and commercial activities serves the goal of sustainable transport capacity and growth. The Jumbo-SAL-Alliance would be focused on gaining..

Last December 2019, Jumbo – the heavy lift shipping and offshore T&I contractor – awarded KENC with multiple engineering assignments. The scope entailed engineering and FEM calculations to prepare Jumbo’s Fairplayer, a DP2 heavy lift crane vessel (HLCV), for an FPSO installation job offshore Brazil. The assignments included engineering of a 192t gypsy winch grillage..

 Jumbo has announced the winner of the competition to name their new DP2 Heavy Lift Crane Vessel (HLCV), scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2020. Last month, the company launched an internal naming competition. Every employee from around the world could submit up to three vessel name entries. Having received over 250 entries,..

Jumbo recently made a formal investment decision to appoint Huisman Equipment for the provision of the design and construction of two offshore mast cranes for their new DP2 Heavy Lift Crane Vessel (HLCV) to be delivered in the first quarter of 2020. The main crane of the HLVC will have a 2,500t capacity. Furthermore, Jumbo..

Jumbo has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with China Merchants Industry Holdings (CMIH) for the provision of the detailed engineering and construction of a new DP2 Heavy Lift Crane Vessel (HLCV) estimated to be delivered in the first quarter of 2020. The concept and basic design was awarded to Ulstein Design & Solutions. In..

The 17th September saw the marking of an important milestone in the construction of Jumbo’s revolutionary new K3000 class vessels. At Split, in Croatia, the first of the two vessels, the Jumbo Kinetic was launched. The weather conditions were perfect and those present report an exciting atmosphere and that proceedings went precisely according to plan…

Pentair’s Fairbanks Nijhuis will produce and deliver various pumps, including two BiFlow pumps (anti-heeling ballast pumps) for the two new heavy lift vessels being built by Jumbo at the Croatian ship yard Brodosplit. Jumbo is specialised in the transport of heavy and/or large cargo over sea. The K-class vessels, currently under construction, will be able..

Jumbo has been awarded a contract by Malaysian pipelay contractor, Sigur Ros. Under the contract Jumbo, with the HLV Fairplayer will oversee transportation and installation of 126 gravity anchor spreads in water depths up to 1,400 m, starting end 2013-beginning 2014. Project management and Engineering will be carried out by Jumbo who will undertake collection..

The September / October 2013 issue of OSI is devoted to this year’s SPE Offshore Europe in Aberdeen. Exhibitor and Orca field licensee GDF Suez E&P UK talks about the co-operation in developing the gas field, which straddles the border between the UK and Dutch sectors of the North Sea. Fabrication of the platform features..

Pick up the latest issue of OSI at RenewableUK’s Offshore Wind 2013 in Manchester – the UK’s premier offshore wind energy event – from 12-13 June. More on that in a moment, but our cover story jumps to the other side of the offshore world – Brazil’s pre-salt fields and Petrobras‘ shipbuilding challenges. In March OSI’s..

For the Gorgon Project, Jumbo recently transported and discharged 25 concrete caissons, which will form the base of the heavy lift Material Offloading Facility for the Chevron LNG Plant in Australia. The crew of the Jumbo Jubilee accomplished a discharge rate of one caisson per day.

Dutch heavy-lift shipping and offshore installation company Jumbo has announced the recent appointment of Tecnoil Comercio e Representacoes Ltda as its agent in Brazil. Tecnoil has been active in the energy market since 1973. Together with Tecnoil, Jumbo aims to further strengthen its position in the Brazilian oil and gas market, offering clients both innovative solutions in..

Jumbo Offshore has completed a short series of tests to demonstrate its installation capabilities in high tidal current velocities. Its DP2 Offshore Heavy Lift Vessels proved ideally suited for the installation of tidal generators currently being developed by different companies, such as Swanturbines, OpenHydro and Atlantis.