Rising to the challenge
Over the last few months votes have been coming in for
IC
’s 2013 TopLift contest to
determine the readers’ favourite lifting job.
IC
reveals the results
TOPLIFT 2013
T
his year’s entries for the
IC
Top Lift
2013 competition included a range
of impressive lifts that were carried
out in challenging environments. In the
September issue of
IC
readers were asked to
pick their favourite from 10 lifting projects.
Readers then returned their votes by the
end of October to be counted.
The winning entry for this year’s
competition was number six,
Tandem
lifting
, from crane rental company Tiong
Woon, Singapore. The company used a
1,600 tonne capacity Terex CC 8800-1
lattice boom crawler and a 2,400 tonne
capacity, 120 m tall tower lift system in
tandem to lift a xylene splitter column
weighing 1,147 tonnes. The lift was carried
out at Jurong Aromatics Corporation’s
(JAC) complex at Jurong Island, Singapore.
Close behind in second place was entry
nine,
US super launch
. The lift was carried
out by heavy lift and transport company
Mammoet, using one of its Mammoet
PTC 140 DS super heavy lift cranes with a
capacity of 3,200 tonnes. The crane lifted
the first spar section for a new offshore
platform going to the Gulf of Mexico. The
piece weighed 816 tonnes and was lifted at
a radius of 69 m. Gulf Marine Fabricators
(GMF) was the main contractor on
the project.
In third place was entry five,
Coastal
conditions
. For the lift a Manitowoc 18000
and a Manitowoc 16000, along with a third
support crane, were used to lift a main deck
from an offshore rig weighing 550 tons
(498 tonnes) at a specialised fabrication
yard in Lobito, Angola. The cranes are
owned by yard operator Sonamet, a joint
venture between Subsea 7 and Sonangol.
IC
would like to take this opportunity
to congratulate the winners and thank all
those who took the time to vote in this
prestigious contest.
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If your company has completed a job
in the last couple of months or, if you do
one before mid-August 2014 that you
think should be entered for next year’s
TopLift competition, and/or it would make
an interesting site report in
International
Cranes and Specialized Transport
magazine,
please send the details to the editor, Alex
Dahm, at
or, by post,
to: KHL Group, Southfields, Southview
Road, Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6TP,
United Kingdom.
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WINNER
INTERNATIONAL AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT
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DECEMBER 2013
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FIRST RUNNER-UP
SECOND RUNNER-UP
Tandem lifting
EQUIPMENT USER:
Tiong Woon
LIFTING EQUIPMENT USED:
Lattice
boom crawler
LOCATION:
Singapore
Crane rental company Tiong Woon in
Singapore used a 1,600 tonne capacity
Terex CC 8800-1 lattice boom crawler
crane and a 2,400 tonne capacity, 120 m
tall tower lift system in tandem to lift a
xylene splitter column weighing 1,147
tonnes. The lift was carried out at Jurong
Aromatics Corporation’s (JAC) complex at
Jurong Island, Singapore.
US super launch
EQUIPMENT USER:
Mammoet
LIFTING EQUIPMENT USED:
Super heavy
lift crane
LOCATION:
Gulf of Mexico
A Mammoet PTC 140 DS with a capacity of
3,200 tonnes lifted the first spar section for
a new offshore platform going to the Gulf of Mexico. The piece weighed 816 tonnes and
was lifted at a radius of 69 m. Gulf Marine Fabricators (GMF) was the main contractor
for the project.
Coastal conditions
EQUIPMENT USER:
Sonamet
LIFTING EQUIPMENT USED:
Crawler crane
LOCATION:
Angola
A Manitowoc 18000 and a Manitowoc
16000, along with a third support crane,
were used to lift a main deck from an off-
shore rig weighting 550 tons (498 tonnes) at a specialized fabrication yard in Lobito,
Angola. The cranes are owned by yard operator Sonamet, a joint venture between Subsea
7 and Sonangol.
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