SAL Heavy Lift’s MV “Regine” of Type 176 has all necessary features for a complex contract like the Tupras Project: a combined crane capacity of up to 1,400 mtons, huge deck capacity and a wide range of lifting equipment.
Destined for the Tupras Refinery, MV “Regine” transported eight reactors from Japan and Korea to Turkey. Four units were loaded in Muroran/Japan, the heaviest being a cracking reactor of 917 mtons. Four more reactors were then loaded in Ulsan/Korea, using the vessel’s deck space to full capacity. All in all, the vessel carried an enormous weight of 5,776 mtons – a total of 27,028 cbm.
In Turkey, MV “Regine” berthed at Derince port, where the entire consignment was transshipped onto waiting pontoons for the final transfer to the Petkim jetty at the Tupras Refinery.
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SAL, June 10, 2013