Earlier this month a drifting dock considering 11,000 lots was packed onto the deck of the semi-submersible hefty lift ship Dockwise Vanguard for transportation to Klaipeda, Lithuania.

The packing procedure lasted around 11 hrs as well as occurred at the Adriatic Shipyard Bijela in Montenegro, starting the 3,825-mile trip to its brand-new residence Lithuania.

The 235-meter-long as well as 53-meter-wide drifting dock was gotten by BLRT Group in June 2016 as well as will certainly be mounted its Western Shipyard in Klaipeda, where it will certainly be the biggest of its kind in the Baltics.

Dockwise Vanguard is the globe’s most qualified heavy-lift vessel with a deadweight of 117,000 tonnes. It is constructed with an open deck that permits it deliver all kind of huge frameworks such as drifting overseas oil as well as gas systems.

“The dock will be the biggest dock in the Baltic countries and will open up new opportunities for ship owners and shipyard to carry out repair and modernization projects on Panamax-type ships,” stated Arnoldas Šileika, Western Shipyard’s Director General.