EXPERTS ARE JOINING FORCES

Quite often you will see the manpower and equipment from various parts of the BMS Group joining forces in the effort to solve a task in the most efficient manner. This is for example the case in Belfast where for months BMS Heavy Cranes and BMS Krangården were working closely together.

In Liverpool Bay on the west coast of the United Kingdom you will find the Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm. It opened in 2007 – and already two years later the planning for an extension began. The first of the 32 new Vestas V164 8.0 MW wind turbines was installed
in September 2016, delivered by MHI Vestas Offshore Wind. This 50/50 joint venture stands on the shoulders of Japanese Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Danish Vestas Wind Systems A/S.

The assembly of the wind turbines takes place in Belfast and that is why you could find BMS Heavy Cranes and BMS Krangården here. While BMS Krangården supplied a 24 axle self-propelled modular transporter (SPMT), BMS Heavy Cranes provided one of its Liebherr LR11350 crawler cranes.

The SPMT is a platform vehicle with a large array of wheels, used for trans-porting massive objects such as wind turbines, bridge sections, oil refining equipment, engines, and other bodies too large or heavy for trucks.

The scope of work in Belfast included receiving and offloading of turbine components, transport of turbine components to storage, up-end of towers and assembly of towers on tower stands, lifting and bringing full towers to quay side and transport of nacelles and blades to quay side.

The BMS gear was operated by a crew consisting of three to six people for the crane and three to eight for the SPMT, depending on shifts. The crewmembers came from Denmark, England, Ireland, and Scotland and worked Monday to Sunday, subject to when the loads were coming in.