SAL and Jumbo plan heavy lift joint venture
NewsSAL Heavy Lift and Jumbo Maritime intend to combine "a large part of their fleets, engineering and commercial activities"...
SAL adds three type 171 vessels to its fleet
NewsSAL Heavy Lift has announced that it will expand its fleet with three heavy lift vessels with 800t lifting capacity in early 2020...
SAL installs Fly-jibs
NewsSAL Heavy Lift is installing Fly-Jibs on the main booms of the cranes of its Type 183 vessels (LONE and SVENJA) to extend their lifting heig...
Port Canaveral and Ravenna receive new cranes
NewsFlorida’s Port Canaveral has received a new Liebherr LHM 600 mobile harbour crane at its North Cargo Berth 5, while another LHM 600 and a ...
SAL Heavy Lift repeats success by signing Horns Rev 3 shipments
NewsSAL Heavy Lift has signed a contract for shipment of a total of 49 transition pieces for the Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm. The contract ha...
More wind contracts for SAL
NewsSAL Heavy Lift has signed a long-term contract for the Walney Offshore Wind Project. This second major contract for transport of transition ...
Rough ride for project cargo
NewsFalling oil prices and China’s economic slowdown are holding back global growth and demand for heavy lift shipping....
Heavy lift battens down
NewsReduced project spending and some particular regional issues will impact heavy lift shipping....
Heavy lift still proving attractive
NewsOperators may grumble about rates, but the heavy lift shipping market is stable, in relative terms. The business is in any case less cyclica...
SAL sells to K Line
NewsIn a surprise move, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K Line) has acquired the remaining 50% stake in the German heavy lift specialist SAL that it ...
Melbourne container park war of words continues
NewsThe decision by Maersk and MSC to fund extended hours at the MRS and CC Containers empty container parks (ECPs) in Melbourne has not diminis...
Heavy lift blowing in the wind
NewsThe number of newbuildings entering the heavy lift/project cargo market sector may give rise to concern about a possible rate war. At the ve...
Oz pursues national port info system
NewsContainer lines, through representative body Shipping Australia (SAL), are backing efforts to establish a port community information system ...
Heavy lift bumps over the hump
NewsHeavy lift/project cargo shipping operators are showing a high degree of confidence....
Clouds gather over a nervous market
NewsThere is still guarded optimism regarding the state of the project cargo shipping market and operators are continuing to order new ships, bu...