HHI to Add Massive Heavy Lift Vessel
Hyundai Heavy Industries to add 10,000 ton heavy lift vessel to its offshore facility-building infrastructure legion
Shipbuilder and offshore facilities contractor Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) informs that its shipbuilding affiliate, Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, completed a 10,000-ton heavy lift vessel (HLV), Hyundai-10000, at its shipyard in Yeongam, South Korea.
The HLV is equipped with eight double truss jib cranes measures 182 meters in length, 70 meters in width and 11 meters in depth. The vessel will join HHI’s existing offshore facility-building infrastructure in Ulsan in March after a series of final tests, commencing operation from April this year.
With the HLV addition, HHI said its maximum lifting capacity per module will increase more than six-fold from 1,200 tons to 8,000 tons, enabling HHI to install bigger modularized blocks built on-ground onto offshore facilities at a time, and therefore minimize the potential risks of working at height.
As the global offshore market has been seeing an increase in the size of facilities, the addition of the mega-sized floating crane can help HHI reduce construction time of a variety of offshore structures the company builds, bringing about 24 billion Korean won ($21.9 million) in cost reduction each year to HHI.
Upon delivery, the heavy lift vessel will be used to build 19 offshore projects including Q204 FPSO for BP at HHI’s offshore yard in Ulsan, South Korea.