SAL brings together complex heavy lift shipping and installation support into one specialist team.
SAL is pleased to announce its next steps as a leading heavy lift project carrier and
marine installation provider. Today SAL is launching its Marine Projects department,
a team dedicated to complex heavy lift shipping and marine installation support.
The team will be headed by Sune Thorleifsson (Head of Projects) who explains: “Marine
Projects is a natural evolution of services for which SAL is already well known.
For more than 35 years SAL has pushed benchmarks as a heavy lift carrier and in recent
years we have increasingly supported marine installation and decommission
projects with our unique heavy lift vessels. With Marine Projects, we work with complex
transport and / or installation services including DP on a uniform platform.”
Marine Projects is based in the SAL headquarters in Hamburg as an integrated part
of SAL Heavy Lift GmbH. In addition, a new branch office will be established 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. This office
will be fully integrated into Marine Projects.
Aside from Sune Thorleifsson also Julia Wildt and Mike Grant will be part of the
team, who together have more than 60 years of experience in serving oil & gas, renewables, salvage and civil work projects.
Erik ter Horst, Senior Project Engineer adds; “I am very excited to be part of this
team. SAL has a unique offering to the market – we have the most cost efficient DP2
vessel in the market, boosting some 7500m2 cargo storage area, a combined lift capacity
of up to 2000t and capable of transiting with 20kn. We can combine shipping
solutions and installation support or offering our vessels as asset charter – a truly
flexible service offering to our customer”.
Marine Projects will encompass the entire fleet of SAL, and will work with customers
across all industries and add to the already existing long track record of marine transportation and installation support.
Sune Thorleifsson states: “We are essentially back to our roots as a one stop shop.
We are a heavy lift specialist offering a diversified portfolio of services. Whether you
need decommissioning support as we showed with our engagement in the Costa
Concordia salvage operations, installation of offshore structures as we showed with
Kitchen Light Unit III project or complex project shipping as just undertaken with the
Walney Extension Project, SAL and the Marine Projects team are here to help”.
About SAL Heavy Lift
SAL Heavy Lift, a member of the Harren & Partner Group, is one of the world’s leading
carriers specialized in sea transport of heavy lift and project cargo. The company was
founded in 1980 as “Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land GmbH & Co. KG” and belongs to Harren
& Partner Group since 2017. The modern fleet of 21 heavy lift vessels offers highly
flexible options to customers. The vessels of SAL Heavy Lift boast an impressive travel
speed of 20 knots, up to 3500 square metres of unobstructed main deck space and combined crane capacities ranging from 550 to 2000 tons: amongst the world’s highest lifting capacity in the heavy lift sector. As a leading global company in the heavy lift and project cargo segment, the company meets the highest standards with regard to quality, technical innovation and health, safety and environment.
www.sal-heavylift.com
