SAL Heavy Lift, part of the JSI Alliance is continuing to use its long-term chartered deck carrier MV Zhong Ren 121 to its full potential. The recent cargo Zhong Ren 122 picked up is HEA Energy’s jack-up barge, the HEA Leviathan.

The jack-up giant weighing 7,149 tons and stretching 83 metres was loaded in Rotterdam.

SAL Heavy Lift installed catchers for precise alignment using the vessel’s 10-meter-high guideposts. The vessel’s strategic stowage resulted in a lateral overhang of 32.3 meters at starboard to minimise cribbing height. The Jack-up’s legs were fully retracted to treat the cargo as flat-bottomed, enhancing stability.

For the float-on operation, the Zhong Ren was carefully ballasted to submerge to an 18.77-meter draft, allowing 7.7 meters of water clearance over the cribbings.

Zhong Ren is currently in the North Atlantic on its way to Port Hawkesbury in Canada.

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