Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 06/2024
Heavy-lift partners to add more ships
BC-class | Amsterdam-based BigLift Shipping, a Spliethoff Group company, and South Korea’s CY Shipping are to boost their four-ship heavy-lift fleet with two new vessels ordered at Jing Jiang Nanyang Shipbuilding Co Ltd in China. Each company will own one of the ships, designed jointly by the partners, with CY Shipping taking delivery of the first vessel in the last quarter of 2025 and the Dutch partner receiving the second ship in the second quarter of 2026. The new BC-class vessels are designed for the worldwide shipment of ultra-large and heavy modular cargoes, with a focus on reliable services speed, low accelerations, and optimised loading and discharge times, the partners said....