Sheerlegs Teamwork Combine on Precision Lift Operation

A total of five sheerlegs were involved lifting inland vessels from the cargo barge on which they had been towed from China to Rotterdam.

Smit Heavy Lift has undertaken a series of lifts in the Port of Rotterdam discharging the Chinese cargo barge Sainty 1 , which was laden with 18 inland vessels and barges. This was the fourth such discharge of its type, performed on behalf of Chinese shipbuilders STIG .

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