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Breakbulk &
Project Cargo
quote?' We received a transport
drawing showing the pieces and the
dimensions," Wender said. BigLift
assigned a project team to work on
the bid, which traveled from the
over the last 10 years," Levold said.
"We've had a good relationship
with Liebherr and have moved mobile
harbor cranes all over the world in the
past six or seven years," Gem Wender,
BigLift's deputy general manager for
projects told The Journal of Commerce.
Initial discussions for this move began
in September 2018.
"It was a request for bidding,
an extensive form, where we're
asked, 'Can you provide us your best
Further
collaboration
ahead?
Though MPV/HL market
continues to be fragile, one exec
sees tighter supply as beneficial
By Janet Nodar
THE MULTIPURPOSE/HEAVY-LIFT
(MPV/HL) sector
was hit particularly hard by the shipping industry
recession of the past decade.
"An oversupply of new tonnage, declining
demand for project cargo transportation, and
competition from other sectors such as bulkers,
ro-ro [roll-on, roll-off ] carriers, and even contain-
er carriers [have] led to record low freight rates,
far below breakeven levels. This consequently
led to a number of operators ceasing operations
following massive losses, as well as a majority of
the fleet defaulting on their financing contracts
and becoming financiers' distressed assets,"
Kyriacos Panayides, managing director, AAL,
said in a recent conversation with The Journal of
Commerce, sharing his views on fleet consolida-
tion, the overall market, new ship construction,
and the impact of IMO 2020, the International
Maritime Organization's (IMO's) low-sulfur fuel
requirement.
Recently, consolidation has accelerated, Pan-
ayides said, with acquisitions, mergers, alliances,
and other cooperation among the stakeholders
commercial or sales department to
the projects department, where a
technical transport documentation
manual was compiled.
During the actual move, the
main part of the crane shipped with
the 164-foot-9-inch mast installed,
but the crane's boom had to be dis-
mantled and shipped in three pieces
on deck. To quote an attractive rate
and generate the desired financial
return on the sailing, BigLift found a
"This is what we all love about
heavy-li. It's our sweet spot."
The AAL Dampier
delivers a
530-metric-ton
electrostatic
precipitator
module — loaded in
Jiangsu, China — to
Port Pirie, southern
Australia, for a lead
smelting facility.
AAL
