Heerema Signs LOI for World’s Mightiest Crane Vessel

Heerema Offshore Services says it has signed a Letter of Intent for the engineering and development of a brand new semi-submersible crane vessel (NSCV) with Jurong Shipyard, a completely owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine.

Heerema Offshore Services B.V., a subsidiary of Heerema Marine Contractors Holding Nederland SE (HMC), will equip its new vessel with two cranes of 10,000 tonnes lifting capability every. The twin cranes, designed and beneath development by Huisman Equipment B.V., present heavy lifting capability to put in and take away offshore services. The cranes will also be utilized for the set up of subsea constructions, foundations, moorings, and floating constructions in deep water. The NSCV might be self-propelled with a transit pace of 10 knots, with energy generated by the use of twin gasoline engines able to operating on MGO and LNG. The vessel might be dynamic positioning (DP3) geared up.

With a vessel size of 214 meters and a width of 97.5 meters, Heerema says the NSCV would be the world’s largest crane vessel.

“Our Letter of Intent with Jurong Shipyard represents the next critical step in our plans to introduce the NSCV to the market,” mentioned Jan-Pieter Klaver, CEO of Heerema Marine Contractors. “The fact that we decided to press on with our plans in these times of low oil prices, shows our belief in the offshore oil and gas industry and demonstrates our continued commitment to offer unparalleled installation services to the industry. We are confident that with Jurong we have found a reliable partner that can build the world largest crane vessel.”

Heerema Marine Contractors at the moment already owns 4 of the world’s largest crane vessels, specifically: SSCV Thialf, DCV Balder, SSCV Hermod, and DCV Aegir in addition to a variety of state-of-the-art anchor dealing with tugs and trendy transportation barges together with the H-851, the world’s largest barge.