UHL Takes Over Modern Heavy Lift Fleet Of Nine Eco-Friendly F900 Newbuildings

“Our mission is to expand our company’s position as front-runners for an eco-friendly Heavy Lift shipping industry. The fleet of nine newbuilding F900 vessels is a perfect match for our sustainability policy. Reducing the overall carbon footprint of our fleet while expanding the number of our vessel available to our customers, is our goal. The carbon emission of the eco-friendly F900 vessels is 3050% lower compared to the existing Heavy Lift fleet in the market.” States Mr. Rolner.

The nine F900s are a perfect match for the growth strategy of the group. The current newbuilding program focuses on advanced and most modern propulsion systems thus the group strives to be a market leader with regards to a reduction of carbon emission.

In addition, the F900 vessels’ dimensions perfectly complement our innovative and tailor-made heavy lift transport solutions.

Representation Image – Credits: United Heavy Lift

The vessels have a crane capacity of 900Mtons, hold 105.45m x 20 m, the height of hold 14.25 meters, and deck 125m x 25 m. We are very pleased being able to service our customers with innovative answers for challenging projects.”

UHL has been expanding their global network, having recently open offices in Japan, Malaysia, and Norway. Soon the USA will be added to the global network of UHL offices and agents.

Further MV “Zea Mahawali”, MV “Zea Kelani” have been taken over, the vessels will be renamed MV “Veronica” and MV “Valentina”. Both vessels will be entering into the West Africa service we are operating together with our partners Marguesa. MV “Spring” will be taken over in February and further enlarging our heavy lift fleet.

The past half-year, we have expanded our market presence by establishing offices in Kuala Lumpur and Bergen, Tokyo, and Houston will be following in February and March. The expansion is made in a joint venture with Ocean 7 and the offices will be operating under the name United O7. Further, our commercial and operations teams have been strengthened with well-known and experienced people from the shipping industry.

Our engineering arm, United Engineering Solutions GmbH counts 51 engineers and Captains, who bring the right technical solutions for our clients. They design and build lifting appliances, load spreading equipment, grillages and ensure that high level of technical solutions is implemented for each individual transport.

Reference: unitedheavylift.de

Source: Maritime Shipping News