Turkey-based heavy lifting and transport company Hareket recently employed two Demag CC 2800-1 lattice boom crawler cranes for lifting the 70-meter-long ‘Aqua Helix’ ship at the Damen shipyard in Antalya, Turkey.
Two 12-axle self-propelled modular transporters brought the 410-tonne ship directly to the quay wall, where the two Demag cranes were already installed after transportation to the shipyard premises on 55 trucks.
The two cranes were set up with a ‘Superlift’ configuration – crane 1 with a 48-meter main boom and 150 tonnes of Superlift counterweight, and crane 2 with a 48-meter main boom and 250 tonnes of Superlift counterweight. With these configurations, the two crawler cranes were prepared to lift the Aqua Helix’s sensitive aluminum hull in tandem to a height of 8 meters and a hook height of 30 meters, after which they traveled forward 20 meters under load before gently letting the ship down into the water.
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The Aqua Helix then took off towards the Netherlands, where it will be getting its gangway, after which it will need to prove its seaworthiness during a series of tests in the North Sea.