The largest crane ship in the world: the Sleipnir.
IMO: 9781425.
The Sleipnir is a semi-submersible crane vessel from Heerema Marine Contractors that was delivered in 2019 by Sembcorp in Singapore. The design consists of two parallel pontoons, each with four columns containing the working deck.
The Sleipnir has two cranes from Huisman Equipment, each with a lifting capacity of 10,000 tonnes and a total lifting capacity of 18,000 tonnes, making it the largest crane vessel in the world. For a long time, this title was reserved for sister ship the Thialf.
The Sleipnir is equipped with a dynamic positioning system with eight rudder propellers of 5.5 MW each. It also features an anchor system with twelve anchor winches. Twelve generators of 8 MW supply the ship with power and these run on both Marine Gas Oil and Liquid Natural Gas.
This photo was taken on 14 April 2024 at the Rozenburg headland.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…