Many tanks for BigLift

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BigLift Shipping’s HAPPY DELTA recently transported in one shipment 13 storage tanks built by Sloot Tankbouw for a Saudi Arabian client from Rotterdam to Jubail. The largest tanks weighed 106t and measured 14m ø and 20.8m tall. Lifting the tanks with the two 400t capacity cranes of BigLift’s Happy D-type vessels was not an issue, as the total volume of 40,000 m3 weighed only 900t in all.

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