18.06.2014

Potea deliver trencher launch crane

Protea has delivered an advanced trencher handling crane to Canyon Offshore for the launching and recovery of Canyon’s latest and largest trencher, the T1500. The 35 tonne capacity crane was installed on the Maersk Responder and is now operational in the North Sea.
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The Protea advanced trencher handling crane

The system was designed and manufactured at Protea’s production facility in Southern Poland and completed an extensive test programme before being shipped to Roysth, Scotland, where a team of service engineers installed the system on the Maersk responder
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The smaller T1200 is lifted

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…..And placed into the sea

Protea chief executive Tomasz Paszkiewicz said: “We worked closely with the Canyon Offshore project team to develop a system that was tailored to their precise requirements and incorporated the key features they had specified based on many years of operating subsea trenchers. These included the ability to launch and recover T1500 in high sea states, rapid mobilisation and demobilisation on a range of support vessels and ease of operation and maintenance”.