SAL puts second new building of Type 183 - Mv "Lone" - into service
SAL puts the new building MV 'Lone' into service. Just three months after the heavy-lift shipping company has sent the MV 'Svenja' - the world's largest heavy-lift vessel - on its maiden voyage, the company's fleet has now been expanded by a second vessel of the same type 183.
- (1888PressRelease) March 19, 2011 - She perfectly resembles her sister, is just as strong and can be positioned to maximum precision: SAL puts the new building MV 'Lone' into service. Just three months after the heavy-lift shipping company has sent the MV 'Svenja' - the world's largest heavy-lift vessel - on its maiden voyage, the company's fleet has now been expanded by a second vessel of the same type 183. Just like its sister vessel, the heavy lifter was built at Sietas shipyard in Hamburg in only 6 months. It has a lifting capacity of 2,000 tonnes and a speed of 20 knots. While the MV 'Svenja' features a Dynamic Positioning System 1 (DP1), the MV 'Lone' is equipped with a DP2. It is only the fourth heavy-lift vessel in the world to be equipped with this system. With DP2, its unrivalled speed and its high crane capacity, the MV 'Lone' is just as suited to service demanding offshore projects within the oil and gas industry as it is to assist in the installation of foundations for offshore wind parks. On March 11, the heavy-lift vessel was christened at the Überseebrücke bridge in its home port of Hamburg. Just like the MV 'Svenja', the MV 'Lone' sails under the German flag.
In line with the tradition that all the company's ships bear the name of one of the women in the company's owners' families, the vessel 'Lone' is named after Lone Esbensen from Denmark, the sister-in-law of SAL co-owner Lars Rolner. After the christening, Captain Lothar Rietzschel took over the ship, which is scheduled to embark on its first voyage the following day to Korea. The 21-member crew on board is comprised of seven officers, four cadets and ten further crew members from Germany, Portugal and the Philippines.
On its maiden voyage, the MV 'Lone' will call the loading ports of Rostock, Aabenraa in southern Denmark and Uddevalla in Sweden, where it will load cranes and equipment (e.g. jack-up legs for offshore platforms) for the oil and gas industry with destination Korea. Subsequently, the new building will carry reactors weighing up to 1,800 tonnes from the Far East to South America. Over the past few months, the company has seen a considerable increase in project requests involving heavy loads.
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