Cargotec’s Singapore plant delivers offshore crane with AHC

Advanced offshore equipment deliveries are about to start to flow from Cargotec’s recently refurbished manufacturing, assembly and testing plant in Singapore for offshore load handling solutions.

January 2010 saw Cargotec’s recently modernised manufacturing, assembly and testing plant for offshore load handling solutions in Singapore deliver its first 150 tonne capacity MacGregor offshore active heave-compensated (AHC) knuckle-jib crane.

Cargotec Marine’s facility fully tested the crane, which was manufactured on site, before its delivery to a customer in Asia.

AHC technology is an essential function in offshore cranes and other equipment employed on vessels or floating offshore installations doing subsea work. Location in Singapore will enable the delivery of 10 to 20 large MacGregor offshore AHC cranes per year.

The completely revamped factory is on a 200m waterfront site and houses 26,000m2 of modern indoor and sheltered workshop space, equipped with overhead gantry cranes of up to 120 tonnes capacity for the manufacture, assembly, testing, repair and service of offshore load handling equipment. This includes: advanced winch systems such as offshore, towing and anchor-handling winches; mooring systems; and large AHC offshore cranes.

The facility also offers an open yard of area 19,000m2 with four test foundations which enable the testing of AHC cranes and other advanced load handling solutions. The site is also equipped with a heavy-duty crawler crane and a transporter for loading and moving large machinery. A 53m by 15m barge provides additional mooring capacity for the repair and servicing of vessels.

Cargotec’s other state-of-the-art centre for the design, manufacturing, testing and service of advanced offshore load handling systems is in Kristiansand, Norway. OSJ