Players at the top end of the heavylift game are finding strong demand for their vessels from numerous offshore heavy-engineering projects.

Although these ships were originally envisaged to carry large loads of up to 2,000 tons, their versatility is making them an integral part of installation work in offshore and near-shore construction projects.

“We haven’t even begun to reach the limits of what these vessels can do,” claimed Justin Archard, SAL Heavy Lift’s Singapore-based managing director for Asia Pacific and Oceania.

Archard