Queue the cheesy music, we have 26 tugboats loaded on one ship…
…And that ship is the 24,500 DWT heavy lift semi-submersible, M/V Fjord.
The Fjord is one of four heavy lift vessels in the Fairstar fleet and the company has another (the FORTE, pictured below) on the way in spite of a recent “hostile takeover” by Dockwise.
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By Michael Carr – A 70-ton, 75-foot tug hung in the air 10 feet from the bridge windows. The ships master was attempting to maneuver his vessel sideways, out from...
Aerial footage of DYT Yacht Transport’s semi-submersible yacht carrier Super Servant 4 loading vessels using the float-on/float-off method in Le Marin, Martinique, a French island in the eastern Caribbean. DYT Yacht Transport is part of Dockwise...
This photo comes from Inchcape Shipping Services, which was recently hired to handle the arrival and offloading of 4 of the world’s largest ship-to-shore cranes at the port of Algeciras located on the southern tip Spain along with Strait of Gibraltar.
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