Bisso Completes Heavy Lift Projects

Bisso Marine Co., Inc.’s heavy lift crews have completed several projects since the beginning of the year. D/B Cappy Bisso launched a 200-ft. dining vessel in Algiers Canal for Superior Diving Co.

D/C Lilli Bisso lifted and set three 280-ton sections for a 300-ft. oilfield supply tug. The bow, center and stern sections were set on blocks for completion of the vessel by Horizon Shipbuilding of Bayou La Batre, Ala.

Lilli Bisso also lifted a 120-ton quarters module in the Algiers Canal for General Marine Leasing. The Blue Water Industries facility at Port Gibson was the sight of a 500-ton jacket-up lift from barge to shore. A 250-ton deepwater wellhead umbilical control reel was loaded aboard the cable and pipe-laying dynamic positioning ship M/V Stolt Seaway Falcon by Lilli Bisso at the Port of Gulfport, Miss. Seaway Falcon is is part of the BP/Exxon Mobil deepwater Mica/Pampano project. This lift was one of 20 completed in a 12-hour period.

Additionally, Lilli Bisso discharged 16 bundles of 115-ton steam generator coils in the Port of Mobile for an Alabama power plant currently under construction.