By AAL Shipping
*Note: this article is a re-publication of the AAL statement, however, it has been lightly edited by Shipping Australia.
Break bulk and multi-purpose shipping operator, AAL (a Shipping Australia member), has undertaken a salvage operation to remove two tugs from the Mersey River in Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania.
The 31,000 deadweight, 700 tonne, heavy...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/aal-recovers-two-wrecked-tugs-in-tasmania/
A bulk cement carrier rammed and sank two tugboats in Port Devenport, Tasmania, in January. The waterway is now open to normal commercial traffic after a salvage operation this month involving a commercial vessel with built-in cranes that normally is used to transport breakbulk and heavy lift project cargo such as wind turbines, transformers and mining equipment.
AskWaves: Pulling boats from the muddy bottom of a river seems more complex than it might seem. What did it take logistically to...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-two-sunken-tugs-were-pulled-from-a-river-in-tasmania
A salvage company has completed the removal of two tugs that sank after being struck by a passing commercial vessel at the Port of Devonport in Tasmania, Australia, earli ..
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At the end of September 2021, the 19,000dwt heavy lift multipurpose vessel, the AAL Nanjing, loaded four large chimney sections, with a combined weight of close to 500 metric tonnes and 6,000 cubic metres in size. The units were manufactured and loaded in Humen, China, and shipped long-haul along AAL Shipping’s (AAL) popular ‘Asia – West Coast Australia Monthly Liner Service’ (AUWC) to Henderson in Australia for installation at the Kwinana Waste to Energy (WTE) Plant – the first thermal...
The 31,000dwt ‘mega-size’ heavy lift vessel, AAL Kobe, recently transported two heavy lift single-point mooring (SPM) buoys along AAL Shipping’s (AAL) ‘Europe – Middle East / India – Asia Monthly Liner Service’ (EUMEIA), from Jebel Ali in Dubai to offshore anchorage in the Persian Gulf.
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The buoys each weighed 340 metric tonnes and measured 16.4 x 15.9 x 14 metres. They were transported on behalf of DHL Industrial Projects and enable offshore interconnection with...
Specialist heavy-lift project carrier, AAL Shipping (AAL) has acquired two heavy-lift ‘mega-size 33,000dwt W-Class multipurpose vessels (MPVs) from the second-hand market, the ‘AAL Mars’ and the ‘AAL Merkur’. The vessels have been serving within the Carrier’s operating fleet worldwide on a commercial management basis.
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Along with four other acquisitions made by AAL over the past eight months – comprising two heavy lift G-Class MPVs (25,800dwt each) the ‘AAL...
Singapore-based multi-purpose (MPP) vessel operator, AAL Shipping has been carrying many containers amid the red-hot box shipping market.
It has been widely reported that MPP ships with container capacity have been utilised to carry containers as good demand has seen almost all available boxships being activated.
Speaking to Container News, AAL Shipping’s head of communications, John Pittalis said, “In 2021, the over-spill from the capacity shortage in the container market has significantly...
https://container-news.com/containers-filling-aal-shippings-multi-purpose-ships/
AAL Shipping (AAL) delivered four of the largest rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) in the carrier’s history to the Port of Oslo (Oslo Havn KF), Norway. These new generation mobile units, measuring 36 m in height and 28 m in length, were transported from Taicang in China to Oslo on a single sailing aboard the 31,000 deadweight ‘mega-size’ multipurpose vessel (MPV), the AAL Pusan.
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The cranes were engineered and manufactured by Kalmar, part of Cargotec and...
AAL Shipping will soon welcome two multi-purpose heavy lift vessels back into its fleet. Pacific Action and AAL Gladstone have both served in the AAL fleet in the past. ..
Operators of multi-purpose vessels (MPV) are expecting a positive financial gain from firming rates in container shipping.
Since the financial crisis in 2008, the MPV segment has struggled with overcapacity, exacerbated by competition from container and dry bulk carriers as those segments also came under pressure.
Container rates are now at levels not seen since 2010, due to tight capacity and container shortages and carriers are competing less with MPV operators for multipurpose cargoes, as they...
https://container-news.com/multi-purpose-ships-gain-from-container-recovery/