Heavy lift company sets up dedicated projects department

SAL Heavy Lift said the new department is its next step forward in the evolution of its services as a leading heavy lift project carrier and marine installation provider.

“For more than 35 years SAL has pushed benchmarks as a heavy lift carrier and in re-cent years we have increasingly supported marine installation and decommission projects with our unique heavy lift vessels,” said Sune Thorleifsson, head of projects, SAL.

“With Marine Projects, we will work with complex transport and / or installation services including DP on a uniform platform.”

In addition to the new department, SAL will establish a new branch office in Rotterdam where Erik ter Horst, Matthieu Moerman and Michiel Rijkaert – all of whom are well known in the Benelux region as offshore specialists, will be based.

Julia Wildt and Mike Grant will also be part of the team, who together have more than 60 years of experience in serving oil and gas, renewables, salvage and civil work projects.

Mr Thorleifsson continued: “We are essentially back to our roots as a one stop shop. We are a heavy lift specialist offering a diversified portfolio of services including decommissioning support as we showed with our engagement in the Costa Concordia salvage operations, installation of offshore structures as we showed with the Kitchen Light Unit III project or complex project shipping as just undertaken with the Walney Extension Project.”