Cargotec?s Singapore plant to deliver its first AHC crane

Advanced offshore equipment deliveries will start to flow from Cargotec?s recently-refurbished manufacturing, assembly and testing plant in Singapore for offshore load handling solutions.

January 2010 will see Cargotec?s recently modernised manufacturing, assembly and testing plant for offshore load handling solutions in Singapore deliver its first 150-tonne capacity MacGregor offshore active heave-compensated (AHC) knuckle-jib crane. The crane, which was manufactured on site, will be fully tested at the Cargotec Marine facility prior to delivery to a customer in Asia.

The Singapore location is designed to be able to deliver 10 to 20 large MacGregor offshore AHC cranes to a number of offshore vessels under construction in the Far East over the next two years.

The completely revamped factory is on a 200m-waterfront site and houses 26,000m2 of modern indoor and sheltered workshop space, equipped with overhead gantry cranes of up to 120-tonne capacity for the manufacture, assembly, testing, repair and service of offshore load handling equipment. This includes: advanced winch systems, such as offshore, towing and anchor-handling winches; mooring systems; and large AHC offshore cranes.

The facility also offers a total of 19,000m2 open yard area with four test foundations, which enable the testing of AHC cranes and other advanced load handling solutions. Cargotec?s other state-of-the-art centre for the design, manufacturing, testing and service of advanced offshore load-handling systems is located in Kristiansand, Norway.