The US Navy plans to transport damaged guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain from Singapore to Japan using a heavy-lift ship, a massive vessel used to transport unseaworthy ships across open ...
Guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) at it steers towards Changi Naval Base, Republic of Singapore following a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC on Aug 21, 2017. US Navy ...
Hamburg-based heavy lift shipping company United Heavy Lift held a naming ceremony for its newest heavy lift ship, UHL Fable. Built at the CSSC Hudong shipyard in Shanghai over a relatively short ...
Compared to new technologies, conventional engineering in shipping is a relatively simple science: computable and generally predictable. However, heavy lift shipping presents challenges that go far ...
If you took a look out onto Puget Sound on Tuesday, you might have seen something unusual: four massive cranes floating by. The cranes, which are among the largest on the West Coast, were traveling ...
It's a problem that few people probably consider: How do you ship a ship? That's exactly what Noble Corp, the company in charge of the troubled drillship Noble Discoverer will attempt to do in the ...
The Fitzgerald, damaged in a collision this summer, was scheduled to return to the US for repairs aboard a commercial heavy-lift vessel. But the Fitzgerald sustained more damage while being loaded on ...
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Why Do They Ship Ships on Bigger Ships?

Ever wonder why entire ships get loaded onto even bigger vessels? Heavy-lift “semi-submersible” ships flood ballast tanks, sink their deck below the sea, float the smaller craft onboard, then pump out ...
You might have felt like you had to do some heavy lifting on Monday, but unless your name is Atlas, World Marine of Alabama probably has you beaten. Over the course of about five and a half hours, the ...
EARLIER LAST WEEK, Happy Star anchored midharbor. She is a 511-foot heavy-lift ship that came to Port Angeles after having delivered a grain silo in Vancouver, B.C. The vessel came to Port Angeles to ...
The Link-Belt 100RT is fabricated and assembled in Lexington, Ky., and represents a significant step in SJSB’s continued ...