Shipping beach platform parts to Burj Al Arab Hotel

“THENORTHDECK”

THE SAL HEAVY LIFT NEWSLETTER | NO. 1 / 2016 | MARCH 2016

PREVIEW

MANAGEMENT GREETING

Dear reader,Welcome to our first NEWSBREEZE of 2016! A new year has begun, and we are already very busy with various projects around the world. In this issue, you can read the first part of the story on our shipment of some impressive beach platform parts from Finland to Dubai. We have also been shipping some large reactors from Taiwan to Point Comfort, TX – a project you might get to know more about later on in the year as well. Last but not least, we have been very busy shipping marine cargo and cranes, providing you with insights into our versatile and flexible shipping solu-tions. Naturally it is not all just about com-mercial activities – we proudly keep you informed about our new devel-opments within HSSE, offices and people. In SAL we don’t sit still!

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IN THIS ISSUE

4 North Deck – Part One: Winter

8 Port Cranes (CCBs)

10 Plastic Plant Expansion Project

12 Marine / Vessel Transport

14 QMBI / HSSE Training Department

15 Up Close With Holger Krenz

16 Inside SAL

18 Events & Reviews

CONTENTS

INFRASTRUCTURE NORTH DECK – PART ONE: WINTER

It is winter. It is minus 28 degrees Celsius. In Finland. And you are on the beach. Hard to imagine?

These images are, none the less, part of the project named “North Deck” which SAL is currently involved in with our MV Svenja. The world-famous Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai has de-cided to expand its outdoor leisure area with a 10 000 m2 private luxury deck. As the hotel is constructed on an artificial peninsula, the North Deck will stretch in direct proximity from the hotel into the Arabian Gulf. The corporation behind Burj Al Arab, Jumeirah Group, contracted ADMARES Ltd, a specialist in luxury floating constructions, to create and construct the beach platform. The platform will be fixed on piles around the hotel and will boast several luxury facilities such as pools, bars, relaxing areas and restaurants.

Platform split into sections for transferADMARES surely faced a challenge: Designing such a large platform is one, but as it had to be manufactured in Finland and then later shipped to its destination in Dubai, it boosted another more practical question – how to transport it? Their solution was to manufacture it in six sections which could then be loaded in Rauma. SAL was brought in to provide a solution on how these

massive sections could be shipped. Each section has amazing dimensions to match up to the total area – the largest section measures 79 m outer length and is 35 m wide. The remaining pieces, too, have impressive dimensions ranging from 41 to 62 metres outer length and a width from 24 to 44 metres. The weight of the modules ranges from 415 to 740 tons. SAL’s solution was MV Svenja.

Eight pieces, stacked, with overhangThe loading operations took place during Christmas 2015. Work started at plus four degrees Celsius but ended up at minus 28 degrees Celsius when the vessel was moved by three tugs to the outer port of Rauma.

The highly complex constructions posed a massive undertaking for SAL to load, both for our engineers and our crew on board. Not only the severe temperatures were a challenge, we too had to take heavy duty equipment in use: our 26 metres lifting beam in order to lift the sections safely onto the deck of MV Svenja. Despite the large unobstructed deck space of MV Svenja, the platform sections created an impressive overhang on the vessel with an aft overhang of 16 metres, starboard overhang of 15 and portside overhang of nine metres. In total eight pieces, including the six beach platform parts and two land bridges, were stacked onto MV Svenja’s deck. Additionally, 24 business cabanas were loaded in the hold – summing up to a total cargo weight of 3500 tons. All in all a true heavy lift project as we like it in SAL.

Destination DubaiMV Svenja is now unloading in Dubai. Bringing the new beach of Burj Al Arab Hotel to its destination. To the summer. We’ll keep you posted on our endeavours in Dubai. In the next NEWS-BREEZE, however … D

MINUS 28° C – LET’S LOAD BEACH PLATFORMS!

Stacking eight pieces … and an overhang of 16 metres:The “North Deck”

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FACTS

The North Deck: A 10 000 m² leisure deck separated into six modules for Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai.

• Six main modules: Section 1: 79 × 35 × 4 m, 640 t Section 2: 62 × 32 × 4 m, 507 t Section 3: 42 × 32 × 4 m, 523 t Section 4: 52 × 44 × 4 m, 740 t Section 5 & 6: 59 × 32 × 4 m, 430 t

• Two land bridge modules

• 24 business cabana modules in hold

• Unique deck stacking solution

• Total weight: 3500 t

• Overhang in the aft: 16 m

• Joint engineering with ADMARES and shipyard to prepare units for shipment

• Rauma, Finland to Dubai, UAE

Work in progress: SAL’s crew showing great physical exertion during loading operations

The 26 metres long lifting beam with a 1000 tons capacity to load the largest items

Loading section 1: 79 × 35 × 4 metres, weighing 640 tons Icy MV Svenja with an aft overhang of 16 metres

CHRISTMAS 2015RAUMA, FINLAND

NORTH DECK – PART ONE: WINTER

“NORTH DECK”LOADING THE

Want to learn more about this project? Please visit www.sal-heavylift.com/news/media/project-info-downloads

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