Our practical and operational knowledge-base covers:
- EPC civil projects: energy, power generation, dams, bridges, smelters, railways, mining+minerals
- port development, infrastructure, dredging
- oil + gas: exploration+production, upstream+midstream, refinery+process plant
superheavylift and supermodules, PAUs, PARs - operation of project, superheavylift, heavylift, multipurpose ships as owner, operator, charterer
- semi-submersible ships and floating cargoes
- roro module carriers
- tug+barge transportation, ocean towage, lightering, up-river logistics
- commercial design of specialist niche ships for niche markets and niche cargoes
- roro and skidding of modules and fabricated structures
- loadouts and loadins
- voyage planning and shipping calculations
- running and operating of ships
- charter parties – voyage and time, period and trip, COAs, MOUs, frameworks
- heavylift engineering
- stowage, lashing+securing, hot-work, clipping, cribbing and strongboxing
- load spreading, seafastening, motion response, acceleration, stress, stability
- weighing and COG assessment
- module preparation and protection
- marine insurance of cargo and hull
- MWS marine warranty surveys
- fitness to proceed surveys
- NDT
- gas-free certification
- project CAR insurance
- marine P&I
- method statements and transport manuals
- break-bulk and bulk cargo, steels, grains, ores + minerals and their specialist charter parties
- liner shipping, semi-liner, parcel operating
- IMO cargo, hazardous and explosive, MSDS
- stevedoring. port and terminal operations, ships’ agency
- sale+purchase of ships and marine equipment
- project planning, scheduling, supply-chain management
- land heavylift cranes and floating-cranes
- beach landings, project jetty and temporary berth construction
- shallow and restricted berths
- access by road surveys, site surveys
- temporary civil construction of access roads and airstrips
- site preparation and foundations
- rigging, erecting, jacking, skidding, installation
- push-up systems, strandjacks, gantries
- SPMTs and conventional trailers and axlelines
- road and rough-terrain transport and logistics
- rail transport, heavylift and bulk
- street furniture, escorting, bridge strengthening, fly-over bridging, dry-season culverts
- lay-downs, marshalling, shorebases, warehousing, inventory, fuel supply, supply-chain, JIT
- customs processes, temporary import, project umbrellas