700 tons of steel loaded in one day ship – Precision work for the HATLAPA team
HATLAPA once again supplies four brand new anchor handling tugs for the offshore industry.
This is a logistically masterpiece. HATLAPA has shipped nearly 700 tons of steel on one day - a new company record. In Luebeck on the Ostsee and Glueckstadt on the Elbe two large anchor handling winches were loaded at exactly the same time by HATLAPA for the off shore oil industry.
HATLAPA are making powerful inroads into the offshore Industry. Four anchor handling tugs for the Norwegian company Mosvold Shipping Company were supplied with HATLAPA deck machinery . The ships are being built in the Indonesian shipyard Batamec under the direction of the owners Otto Marine (Singapore). And in Genoa in Italy part of the Fincantieri group is building twelve „Anchor Handling Towing Supplies” (AHTS) vessels, all supplied with anchor handling winches supplied by HATLAPA.
The anchor pulling winch loaded in Gluckstadt weighs 290 tonnes. The one destines for the Indonesian market probably weighs 100 tonnes more. The weight differential doesn’t sound very much, but the differences are huge. This is the quantum leap and we are operating in a different league.
This new power packet from HATLAPA is 12.5 m long, 11.5 m wide and 6.7 m high. Even with an HGV vehicle with 10 axles the weight capability of each axel would have been 50 tonnes. This would not fit on any of the local roads so transportation of this size had to be done by sea.
HATLAPA’S mega machine was assembled in Luebeck with LMG and loaded onto a barge owned by the shipping company Harms. With the help of a tug from the owners Schramm it was navigated down the Elbe – Luebeck canal, and from the Elbe into Hamburg port, where it was loaded onto a large container ship belonging to Rickmers, and then on to Singapore. The loading alone at Luebeck took 14 hours.
The 400 tonne high tech construction was carefully and extremely slowly loaded onto a pontoon. Wheel by wheel, centimetre by centimetre the towing winch was pushed onto the ship. This required extreme concentration and precision, and used a team of 15 people.
HATLAPA’s logistics manager supervised these works practically in slow motion.
In Gluckstadt such extreme loading fortunately was not required. The company Kuhl used two of its largest cranes to load each of the 290 tonne anchor tow winches onto a ship.
This labour intensive procedure will be repeated every two months, three more times as the customer in Singapore has ordered 3 ships of HATLAPA deck machinery, with 390 tonne anchor handling winch being the main portion.
It’s not only the power and the measurements of the towing winches that are impressive. Six hydraulic motors with a power of 440 Kilowatts make stepless regulation possible when braking, using a steel rope up to 7600 m long. The pumps are pushing 4000 L of oil per minute through the motor. That’s the equivalent of 25 baths full in only one minute - a huge amount of pressure. At full power the winch can wind up 18 m of rope per minute. The heavy container ship from Rickmers Dalian will deliver HATLAPA’s equipment to Singapore, where this heavy piece will have to be unloaded again onto another barge in order to reach the shipyard in Batam.