At its Netherlands fitting-out anchorage in the outer reaches of Rotterdam’s harbour area, the world’s mightiest offshore construction vessel has just reached the point of “full visual impact”. As well as its vast twin hulls, the most obvious defining feature of Allseas new flagship Pioneering Spirit is the array of huge beams at the ship’s forward end for that all-important job of lifting whole platform topsides.
Pioneering Spirit reaches lift beam milestone
A full set of giant lift beams is now in place on the twin bows of the vast platform decommissioning catamaran Pioneering Spirit. Adrian Cottrill has been aboard to see what all this work involves and to get up to date on an eventful year since the hull’s January arrival in Rotterdam.
9 October 2015 0:00 GMT
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9 October 2015 0:00 GMT
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