Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Fairstar completes load-out of Tombua Landana modules

Fairstar Heavy Transport of the Netherlands has completed the loading of two topside modules this week onto its heavy transport ship ‘Fjord’ at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Okpo, South Korea.

Dave Hangoor, Operations Manager for the Rotterdam-based Fairstar, said that both modules had an approximate weight of 11,000 tonnes and were transported from the quayside to the deck of ‘Fjord’. “The ship functioned perfectly as we managed the changing tidal cycle while taking the modules onboard”. The ‘Fjord’ will sail from Korea directly to the Tombua Landana field in Angola, which is being developed by Chevron.
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