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A lot has happened since the acquisition of Mammoet by the Van Seumeren Group last year. As shown in the organisation charton page 3, a new structure has been implemented. As a matter of fact it has been put in effect in a very short time.

By the end of 2001, a new headoffice will be inaugurated in thegreater Rotterdam area. Currently a state-of-the-art heavy lift terminalis created, unique in its kind. The construction of the prefabricat-ed head office has been awarded to one of our esteemed clients,Grootint in Zwijndrecht. Similar tothe construction methods in the off-

shore industry, the bollard shapedMammoet office is entirely built attheir yard. At the end of this yearMammoet (who else?) will transportthe structure by SPMT trailers and a barge to the Rotterdam area overa distance of 40 kilometres. It will change the skyline of theNieuwe Waterweg overnight. At that moment the new heavy liftterminal ready. It will give direct access to oceangoing vessels because the pier is sit-uated at deep water. Therefore, heavy lift equipment canbe mobilised easily to any destinationin the world. Storage of heavy loadswill be a new feature on this terminalin the largest port in the world.

For those who received the formerVan Seumeren Newsletter orMammoet Mail: this publication isthe successor of both magazines. To underscore Mammoet’s extendedworking field we named the newpublication “Mammoet World”.

The editors are glad to introduceyou on behalf of the management to the fascinating Mammoet worldand its borderless heavy lift andtransport opportunities.

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ContentsIntroduction 2

Always on the move 2

PetrochemicalSafety, know-how and

professionalism 4

Naphtha plant stop at DSM 4

EmergO-Project achieves

highest point 5

Watch out! Low flying vessel… 5

From Italy to Egypt 5

At a different angle 6

About reactors and silos 6

A lift to remember 6

Maarten de Graaf looks back

on a eventful year 7

Two Alstom projects 8

From the Houston harbour to

the Exxon Baytown Refinery 8

Heavy transport in Venezuela 8

Mammoet in Iran 9

Malaysia and Thailand 9

TradingMammoet Trading 9

Civilit’s Mammoet!!! 10

Flower Power 11

Cranage at various levels 11

A tree is known by its fruit 12

First class bridge travel 12

Bridges for trains, trams and

pedestrians 12

Miller Park Stadium 13

Railway bridge installed 13

Tunis Rades Stadium 13

OffshoreMammoet dedicated to offshore 14

Heimdal riser 14

Wintershall 14

Snorre B Project 15

Heaviest offshore structure ever

moved on wheels 15

Multi crane lift 15

Pemex Canterall EPC-1 Project 15

Ports and ShipyardsSubmarines on Wheels 16

Odense Steel Shipyard 16

Expansion of Polish Shipyard 17

Lower it steady and easy… 17

Gone with the cranes… 17

Extension of the cruise ship

Costa Classica 17

Ships on a vessel and trailers 18

Cranage in South Africa 18

Manila South Harbor 18

Ms Seaway 18

PowerWindmills in our mind 19

Transformers on the move 19/20

Corporate identityMammoet new style visualised 20

Mammoet addresses 20

The focus of the Executive Board is on the future

On 12 July 2000, the contracts were signed that gave a new enterprise its formal status. Van Seumeren Holland BV and Mammoet BV, both renowned for their achievements in the market for heavy lifting and transport, joined forces. The focus of the Executive Board is on the future, capitalising on the fascinating synergy advantages that this acquisition offers.

Introduction

De Meern - We proudly present the first issue of a completely re-styled journal especiallyproduced for our relations and valued clients. It will keep you updated about the develop-ments in the Mammoet organisation.

Always on the move

Typical

What is characteristic for the newenterprise? On the last day ofDecember 2000, the Executive Boardis asked to reflect on three aspectsthat they consider as most typical forthe new Mammoet corporation, whichemploys over 1,600 professionalsworld wide.

Frans van Seumeren, President andCEO, does not need long to completehis list. “Both companies have com-plementary skills and equipment to offer, so my first item is ‘globalcoverage’.

This not only refers to the geographicpresence, but also to the range ofsolutions that we can offer in heavylifting and transport. My second con-sideration is ‘professionalism’. Themerger of both companies is to someextend a logical step in market devel-opments. Due to even higher invest-ments by our clients in equipment likevessels, jackets or other heavy ele-ments, they will only trust the delicatejob of transport and lifting to a partythat guarantees a quick, safe andthus professional operation.

Our big company can offer, sustainand develop further this required pro-fessionalism. My third item is relatedto the other two. Mammoet operatesat the top of the market and focuses

on difficult jobs, as well as more stan-dard services. It is the range of ourproducts and services that is mosttypical to us.”

Frits van Riet, who joined theExecutive Board from Mammoet, isprimarily responsible for the internaloperations and is challenged by theneed to integrate both companies assmooth and as quick as possible.

The Managing Director and COO presents some additional aspects that are typical for the new company.“I would emphasise that we are trulya global player and thus support a 24hour service. When it comes to therange of services and the range oflocations where we operate, we are

the largest company in the market. By consequence, and this is my sec-ond aspect, we support a valuablenetwork of contacts, representatives,offices and other point of contacts.

The challenge is to get the organi-sation as lean as possible, whilekeeping the communication lines with customers short. I will elaborate more on these organisational aspectslater on.

Finally, when I look to the current operations, at the end of this year and barely six months after joining Van Seumeren, I consider our com-pany dynamic and fast, with a mind-set for pro-active support of our customers”.

Roderik van Seumeren, VicePresident Mammoet Global, sharesthe aspect of professionalism withhis colleagues. “An aspect that isvery important to me is that weachieve really tailor made solutionsthat work smoothly and safely. No job in heavy lifting and transportcan be business as usual.

We have to account for unexpectedcircumstances and must guaranteethe safety of our customers’ equip-ment and all personnel involved atany time. In many cases, this willlead to innovative, yet simple andcreative solutions, like the one we developed for the MilwaukeeStadium. (see page 13)Having said this, my third choice incharacterising our new company isthat the sky is the limit. I do notbelieve that there is any object thatwe cannot move or lift in place.

Yes, as Frits said, we are among thebiggest companies in the market. But this status also makes you vulner-able. You have to prove over and overagain your leadership position andstress your company to the limits ofits capacities and abilities. It is a chal-lenge I like. It appeals to our success-ful spirit of pioneering, while at thesame time we must achieve a smoothand cost effective operation that istypical of big, mature companies.”

Outlook for 2001Frans van Seumeren referred in hisNew Years speech to promising mar-ket developments. The profitabilityon, for instance, the rental activitiesin the ‘home market’ Beneluxremains at an acceptable level andcontributes to the overall result. The world wide (petro) chemical

market segment currently shows anupswing as major investments werepostponed the last couple of years

as a result of economic develop-ments in the Far East. In parallel,Frans van Seumeren also expectsthe offshore market to gain momen-tum at the end of 2001 or in 2002. “I would not say that these are all‘traditional’ markets for us, sinceeach shows its own rhythm andoffers its own surprises. But in contrast, there are also mar-

kets that I really want to call ‘greenfields’ since we are at the beginningof large scale operations there.

China is a good example and I stillexpect a good future in the Russianmarket development. Also in theMiddle East we are looking foropportunities to enforce our marketposition.”

The acquisition of Mammoet hasbeen received very well by the cus-tomers and is considered as a logi-

cal development. According to Frans van Seumeren, it offers a lotof potential in creating better logisticsolutions, more alternatives for exe-cuting heavy lifting and transportjobs and improving the service level.“Our wide range of equipment ispositioned such that we can bringin any required item on short notice.This means that the average cycletime for a job will decrease. In short, we will aim for better andquicker service.”

A final aspect that will dominate2001 is the development of theMammoet new headquarters in the greater Rotterdam area. The construction started and the2400 tonnes, 45 metre high buildingwill be transported in one piece from Zwijndrecht over a distance of40 kilometres to its final location. It is expected that by the end of2001, the staff now employed in De Meern and Breda can move tothe new site. “It’s a bit a part of ourculture. Always on the move, andnow even with our staff” replies Frans van Seumeren.

Mammoet Global

Why is it necessary to establishMammoet Global next to the fourregional organisations? Roderik van Seumeren explains the tasks of his organisation in themaking. “Mammoet Global focusseson extreme jobs in heavy lifting andtransport, most of them being ‘one of a kind’.

The expertise and skills needed to execute such jobs is to precious to be developed in parallel in fourregions. Also the storage of theequipment required for those jobsin four regions would mean over

capacity, resulting in having a part ofour resources sitting idle. MammoetGlobal should be considered as anentity that facilitates the regionalorganisation in completing specifi-cally difficult or demanding jobs.

Our most skilled engineers workwithin Mammoet Global and offer a‘think tank’ that generates innovativeand tailor made solutions for anychallenge offered to us. As a corpo-rate body, Mammoet Global is alsoresponsible for setting and maintain-ing group standards, in the field ofsafety, quality control, maintenance,

engineering and others. Finally,Mammoet Global is responsible for the training and education of our senior operational staff and comprises a kind of corporateschool.”

Roderik van Seumeren considers hisorganisation as a conductor of anorchestra. By co-ordinating activitiesbetween regional organisations andoverseeing the total operations,Mammoet Global will turn the syner-

getic potentials - in available equip-ment, logistics and expertise - intosolid business advantages and highlevel services for customers.

Big and leanorganisation

At the heart of the new organisa-tion is a decentralised approach.Mammoet has four regions thatare allowed to operate auto-nomously within the corporate standards.

The regions are centred on Europe,the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. In addition, there is a fifth organisational body:Mammoet Global.

The blueprint of the organisation istextbook like, but what about thepractical daily operations? Frits van Riet is complementary toFrans van Seumeren. While the CEOis an entrepreneur in all aspects andhas a firm external focus, the COOaccepted the challenge to restyle theformer companies into a dynamic,loyal and professional organisation.

“The quality of our staffing is mostcritical to our commercial results.From our joined forces, we have toselect the best people for the mostdemanding jobs. Fortunately, ourmarket leadership is very attractivefor young and promising profession-als that seek a career track with lotsof opportunities. Frankly, we do notallow ourselves to spend a long timein recruiting people. We want thebest and we want them now.Moreover, the inflow of new peoplewill accelerate the change of corpo-rate culture towards a client driven,service oriented organisation, evenmore than the previous companiescould offer. This is not just a goal initself. The market, our customers,

are expecting us to keep improvingourselves, in professionalism, servicelevel and innovation or creativity. My personal challenge is to com-plete the integration process by theend of this year.

By then, everybody is in place, withthe correct mindset and ready forany challenge to come.”

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“We will be capitalising on the fascinating synergy

advantages that this acquisition offers.”

“The quality of our staffing is most critical

to our commercial results.”

“Mammoet Global should be considered as an entity

that facilitates the regional organisation in completing

specifically difficult or demanding jobs.”

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The chemical, petrochemical and process indus-tries are important market segments forMammoet. These industries provide the naturalenvironment for the development of new, innova-tive heavy lift systems such as the containerisedPTC (I and II) and MSG 50 (I and II) systems.

They frequently serve operations at, for instance,refineries. At the same time a large fleet of mobilecranes of all capacities, and skilled staff is avail-able for maintenance work and plant stops. In fact, a special plant stop concept has beenintroduced. It comprises a flat fee agreementbased on a partnership contract.

This offers the customer many benefits. One of the most important is that Mammoet, when needed, will mobilise a substantial quantityof equipment and skilled personnel in a very shorttime. Although price is always a key consideration,it is not the first argument to consider the use ofrental cranes. Safety is even more important, followed by know-how and professionalism.Mammoet considers plant stops as complete inte-grated projects. From the moment a customer isprepared and able to describe about 70 percent ofall lifting requirements for its plant stop, Mammoetcan offer the flat fee for the whole project. The mechanical contractor can then

offer additionally his own work. In The NetherlandsMammoet supports in-house branches on the siteof various (petro)chemical companies like Shell,Dow, DSM, Huntsman, Dupont and CorusSteelworks at IJmuiden. These serve as nerve centres from where all localoperations are co-ordinated. For those customerswho have no partnership contract with Mammoet,a dedicated temporary shop is established on the site. The Mammoet project manager can thuseasily discuss the work in an early stage with themechanical contractor. This facilitates effectiveengineering and good planning, vital to every plant stop.

Petrochemical

Safety, know-how and professionalism

“The overall project required 200,000 labour hoursas the stop was scheduled to last 4 weeks. Thanksto efficiency improvement, this could be reduced to3.5 weeks. For such operations, much lifting has tobe done. We had 16 fixed lifting locations andsome could be supported by mobile cranes as well. The cranage needed should feature various capaci-ties. In the nine months of preparations, we

designed a crane plan and assured free accessover our roads such that other contractors coulddo their job as well.”

The most heavy crane was a 400 tonnes crawlercrane with luffing jib, necessary to support theextension of a distillation column. Another remark-able feature was a small whistle that the Mammoet

supervisor used during the lifting operations. It wasan extra dimension to safety and acknowledged byall involved. By the way, good communicationsbetween the contractors was vital, as 1,500employees did speak French, German or Englishinstead of Dutch. Safety was continuously stressedand supported by toolbox-, safety promotion- andregular co-ordinating meetings.

No secrets…

During the season of harvesting the‘white gold’, asparagus, MammoetWorld had a chat with Ton van deKerkhof, Purchasing Manager withDSM Services B.V. in the province ofLimburg, The Netherlands.“I’m already three years with thisdepartment. Before that, I wasemployed with Sales for 12 years. My change of job was triggered bythe management that desired a moremarketing style of operation at thepurchasing department. I supportedthe introduction of a new purchasingprocedure, the so called PurchasingMarketing Planning, to the GeneralTechnical Services branch, responsi-ble for scaffolding, isolation, indus-trial cleaning and others. One ideawas not to start with a request foroffers from various contractors, butto begin with a market analysis.

What is the market turnover andwhat is our own market share? Who are the major suppliers in the

market and with whom could weestablish a partnership? The wheeling & dealing remains animportant issue, but it comes sec-ond. Partnerships are typical forsales management, and I still stickto that principle. I can say now thatthe purchasing department reallyadopts a different strategy, com-pared to a couple of years ago.”

Van de Kerkhof elaborates on thechanged policy. “The issue is thatwe outsource as much as possible,especially the things we do not dowell ourselves. Obviously, lifting andtransport is not our core business,but the same is true for other main-tenance disciplines. We do have alot of expertise, but specialised staffof an external contractor simply per-forms better. However, they shouldbe market leaders or top players intheir business. This lead positionhas to be very clear. As for the crane business, we have

experience with several good per-forming parties. Yet we selectedMammoet amongst others, sincethey concentrate on crane activitiesfor our market, the chemical indus-try. In fact, a great deal of their oper-ations take place in this segment. So they know our business, ourstakes and our safety issues.”

According to Van de Kerkhof, themost essential part is the develop-ment of a mutual relationshipbetween market leaders of differentbranches. This assures the best per-formance, the optimum benefit ofinnovative achievements and ofcourse quality and safety.

Geleen - A maintenance stop was scheduled for the naphtha plant at DSM. During the stop, a de-bottleneck project had to be executed as well. Ir. Jacques Kemp, project and turnaround manager, comments on these operations.

Naphtha plant stop at DSM

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The upgrading yields an increase of productioncapacity with 600 kilo tonnes ethylene per year to1,700 kilo tonnes. To achieve this, the 18 furnacesin the LHC-2 complex needed a modification tomeet a new design, doubling their individualcapacity. By consequence, the energy consump-tion decreases, as does the NOX emission pertonne ethylene. Other elements of the upgrade area new separation train, cooling tower, controlroom and infrastructure.

Project manager Jo Timmer gave the formal startfor the lifting operations, involving the hoisting of a 5.75 metres diameter top section to 110 metreshigh, making it the highest distillation column inHolland. The column, part of the separation train,is manufactured by Ellimetal while StorkEngineering & Contractors is responsible for thetrain. In the vessel, propane and propene are separated as they boil off at different tempera-tures. However, since these boiling points are

rather close, many separation stages are neededto reach the required purity levels. This is why the column is 110 metres high. Apart from lifting, Mammoet also serves the heavytransport needed for this extension project.Mammoet moved seven separation towers with atotal length of 420 metres from the container plat-form in the Braakmanhaven to the plant site, usingSPMTs. The sections were between 100 and 160tonnes each. The length and weight posed specialconstraints to the site movements and requiredvery accurate operations. The total upgrading isvalued at 1 billion guilders. The plant is expectedto be operational in 2001.

Terneuzen - On Saturday 17 June 2000, the upgrading of a distillation plant in theEmergO project of Dow Chemical reached a milestone.

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EmergO-Project achieves highest point

For transportation from the port to the refinery site,Mammoet mobilised two coupled gantry beams with alength of 40 metres, fixed on support stools around thetower. Two combinations of double 6-lines SPMTs fittedwith two 350 tonne capacity turntables were intercon-nected by two specially engineered T-frames for support-ing the total construction. This solution may seem rathercomplicated but was chosen to avoid the removal of low-hanging piperacks at the refinery. The total transportcombination measured 55 metres with a weight ofapproximately 520 tonnes. At times it moved very closeto the ground to achieve the necessary height clearance.

The distillation tower was transported over the publicroad from Radicatel harbour to the Esso site in the PortJerome industrial zone, a distance of six kilometres.Upon arrival the vessel was manoeuvred underneath

several piperacks with a clearance of just 150 mm. The column was positioned on four 150 tonne jacks at a designated location. The transport beams were subse-quently dismantled. In the meantime the SPMT trailerswere reconfigured into one double 12 axle line trailer. In addition the vessel was picked up by the hook of aDemag CC2800 crawler crane fitted with a 54 metresmainboom and a 30 metres derrick.

A Demag AC1600 served the tailing frame that had beenpurpose-designed for this job. The lifting operation wassmooth and the vessels could be placed without anyproblems, notwithstanding the area being very confinedas it was in the middle of a live refinery. Mammoet fin-ished the job with supporting the alignment and levellingof the column.

Le Havre - Mammoet executed the transport and erection of a 280 tonne distillation towerfor Esso S.A.F./Foster Wheeler in France. The tower was offloaded by a heavy lift vessel atPort Jerome and temporarily stored just on the quayside.

Watch out! Low flying vessel…

Cairo - Mammoet Italy, in close co-operation withMammoet’s new subsidiary in Egypt, showed a perfectexample of a “Factory to Foundation” job.

It comprised the transport, shipmentand lifting operation of two hydro-cracker reactors for customerDaelim. Especially the extensivepaper work in connection with thisproject proved to be challenging.However Mammoet Italy controlsevery part of this process and canreally guarantee its existing andfuture customers a full door to doorheavy lift service, including allrequired permits and other legal doc-uments. The 750 tonne reactor ves-sels were loaded in Porto Marghera

onto the heavy lift ship Happy River,as representatives of Saga, Technipand Palumbo Seafreight watchedthese operations. Upon arrival at Alexandria the ves-sels were transported to the site anderected by the Mammoet Hydrajackgantry system.

During a period of four months aPC/CC 4200 crane was stationed at the refinery. This job was a first for our newly established legal entityin Egypt.

From Italy to Egypt

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The final product is dispatched downa pipeline to refineries and terminalsin the Edmonton area, and for ship-ment down pipelines to refineries inCanada and the United States. The main site is located at MildredLake, 40 kilometres north of FortMcMurray in Alberta and about 500kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

Mammoet’s containerised liftingdevice, MSG 50, was contracted forseveral lifts at Syncrude’s processingplant. These lifts were carried outwhile the plant was in operation, sosafety and precise lifting engineeringwere of utmost importance. TheMammoet crane was equipped with a43 metre jib on top of a 62 metremain boom to obtain the required74.6 metre radius which was neededfor the most important part of theproject: the exchange of a 620 tonne

reactor vessel. The MSG 50 was win-terised in order to operate under bit-ter cold winter circumstances at tem-peratures below 30 degrees Celsius. Nick Deeg, project manager of theBitumen Conversion Resource Teamspecifies the other factors, whichplay an important role regarding the“go” or “no go” of starting the lift.

“The exchange of this reactor vesselis engineered to the smallest details. The lifting plan as prepared byMammoet is very detailed and itshows that the crane is working withmuch better specs than originallydesigned for. Obviously this hasalready been investigated a long timeago, because working at a live plantincurs its own problems and can bechallenging at times. Apart from thetemperature, the wind force is a deci-sion factor as well.

On the first scheduled date, the lifthad to be posponed because of theheavy wind pressure”. Nick Deegexplains the green signal for the lift-ing operation must be given well inadvance as the various disciplinesshould have enough time to preparethemselves. On the second sched-uled date, the wind was calm and thesun rose slowly above the horizon,shining a golden light on the MSG 50and the reactor vessel. The Mammoet crew had no eye forthat scene, being busy with the mat-ing of the vessel. “A good perfor-mance, well prepared and muchfaster accomplished than anticipated”,is the comment of a tired but fully satisfied project manager. Aroundnoon the reactor is firmly secured tothe rest of the installation and anothermile stone has been reached in theCoker 8-1 Stretch project.

About reactors and silos

Antwerp - Geldof Metaalconstructie manufactures silos forall kinds of industrial bulk goods, from granulate to cementand chemicals. In 1969 Geldof decided to switch its activi-ties from the flax industry to metal fabrication.

This marked the modest start to whateventually became an internationallyrenowned company supporting a widerange of products in carbon steel,stainless steel and other alloys. The company serves customers allover the world in many different indus-trial sectors, ranging from petrochemi-cal to car manufacturing, and fromwater purification to waste processing.A good example of their outstandingproducts is a tank for the storage of15,000 tonnes of melasse which hadto be built in 9 weeks for Dagevos B.V.in Wemeldinge, Zeeland.

Therefore they have decided to builtthe roof with the upperpart of the shellnext to the tank and lift it at the end inone piece on top of the tank. For thefinal assembly, Mammoet used twoAC 650 cranes and installed the con-struction quickly and safe.Another remarkable fact was thetransport of a 80 tonne reactor vesselwith a diameter of 9.5 metres and alength of 30 metres. This installation had been producedby G&G International N.V. which ispart of the Geldof group. It is one ofthe world’s leading contractors, with

the in-house capability to design andbuild storage tanks, pressure vessels,reactors and columns for oil refiningand petrochemical industry. Geldof awarded the transportationcontract to Mammoet. The vessel was shipped by barge along theAlbertkanaal to Antwerp. With policeescort the reactor proceeded to thedestination area at Indaver, located on the left bank in Antwerp.

A lift to remember

Fort McMurray - Syncrude is Canada’s largestsingle source of crude oil and the world’slargest producer of crude oil from oil sands. To do this, Syncrude mines oil sand from a sur-face mine. The raw oil, or bitumen, is extractedfrom the sand with steam and hot water. Then, it is upgraded to crude oil by fluid coking,hydroprocessing, hydrotreating and reblending.

Kleve - Winkels AG in Kleve is a regular user ofMammoet’s heavy lift services.

An interesting point in all the heavy transports that arebeing executed for this expert column manufacturingcompany, is that the river Rhine is always part of thetransport schedule. Also in this case the column measur-ing 48 metres long and weighing 165 tonnes was movedon SPMTs to the river bank of the Rhine where it wastransferred along a Nato ramp onto a Rhine barge.

At Karlsruhe the column was offloaded again and suc-cessively brought to the Miro refinery in the same place.The column was dressed at the site which resulted in aweight increase of 115 tonnes. The now 280 tonneWeighing process column was put upright by a CC2800crawler crane and delivered onto its foundation in onesmooth and swift move.

At a different angle

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De Meern - Between Christmas and New Years Eve, Maarten de Graaf, Senior Project Managerof Mammoet, found some time to look back on last years operations he was involved with.

Irving Oil Refinery

“To start, I was involved with theproject we did for the Irving Oil refin-ery at Saint John, New Brunswick. This project started last year andwas completed at the end of 2000.Over 200 items ranging from 50tonnes to 570 tonnes were installed

at different areas on the site.Therefore, the PTC was equippedwith crawlers as to facilitate sitemoving to seven different locations.This was a novelty for the PTC andproved this concept offers muchversatility in operation flexibility. A special challenge was to fit thePTC with a jib that was moved inseparately. With the jib added, thePTC had increased capacity to han-dle the heaviest and highest loads ofthe project. Adaptations and testingwas done at the site and effectivelysupported by Irving.

The PTC operated almost a full yearat this site, in tandem with a CC4800 crane. Right now, the PTC ison the move again, heading forAlberta, some 5000 km down the

tracks. It will join another CC 4800there in assembling 1200 tonnesvessels that come in pieces by railfrom Japan, and finally lift the com-pleted structures into place.”

“Besides the project for Irving Oilrefinery, we just completed a majorproject for Suncor Energy at Ft.McMurray, Alberta.The versatility ofthe 4800 Twin Ring Light Duty con-cept was be proved once moreaccompanied by a CC 4800 toinstall four coke drums of 480tonnes each.

The CC 4800 also performed manyother lifts, just as an LR 1250 thatassisted in tailing operations. Thecustomer defined strict constraintsto the site movements, which camedown to the requirement to move allloads with the same crane configu-ration, i.e. with jib. If you neverworked in such harsh conditions, it is hard to imagine what kind of

improvisation was needed to continue the operations. As we arrived on the site nearEdmonton, the temperature droppedto minus 48 degrees Celsius, essen-tially freezing the hydraulic systems.We needed two days to heat theequipment and restore the opera-tional status. During the operations,we could continue our activities totemperatures as low as minus 40.

Etarco Mammoet Western was onthis project involved with the trans-port of 485 modules up to 30 metreslong, 7.3 metres wide and 7.3 metreshigh. The 147,4 tonne modules andwere transported from Edmonton toSuncor, a distance of 500 km, duringOctober to December 2000.”

Suncor Energy

Test PTC II

“At the end of 2000, we started withthe assembling and testing of oursecond PTC crane. The testing isdone according to the US ANSI standards. This is necessary foreach crane that evolves to a pro-duction series after the prototype. I expect this second crane to joinoperations early in 2001.”

Maarten de Graaf looks back on an eventful year

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Puerto La Cruz - An impressive transport operation was car-ried out by Mammoet Venezuela for the construction of thegas upstream facilities for Accroven (ENRON/Canadian Gas).

Heavy transport in Venezuela

The reactor is part of the off-sitesection of the Delayed CokerProject, which is being implementedin this refinery. Built in Spain, thisreactor was delivered to the Houstonharbour by BigLift Shipping onWednesday, 29 November.

Mammoet had prepared a platformholding using a 16-axle-lineGoldhofer. However, due to a delayin the construction of the reactor,the decision was made to transportit to Baytown on conventional trail-ers rather than SPMTs.

The latter were not available due tothe PEMEX load-outs in Mexico.Shipping cranes were used to load

the reactor onto the platform.Everything was secured thoroughly.The following day the reactor wastranferred over Exxon’s own dock inBaytown. Thursday and Friday werereserved for further preparation ofthe route. At 9 a.m. on Mondaymorning the green light was given to move from the Exxon site to thepublic road. At 10:30 a.m. our newKenworth C 500 (its first job since its arrival in the States) hauled theGoldhofer onto the road.

The route was approximately 5 kmlong. The most difficult section wasan S bend over a railway line. This was one of two points where a second haulage vehicle was

required. At exactly 2 p.m. the trailer turned through the gate into the refinery.

The following afternoon the SPMTswere delivered, assembled and thereactor was transferred to a dual 12-axle line vehicle. On Wednesdaymorning it was driven to its finalposition. It was then jacked up morethan a metre and unloaded.

From the Houston harbour to the Exxon Baytown Refinery

Baytown TX - Mammoet transported a 475 tonne reactor from the Houston harbour to the Exxon Baytown Refinery for our customer, Fluor Daniel Inc.

The total transport contract consistedof over 20 modules and vessels.

The pictures show the largest col-umn for the upstream facilities inSanta Barbara (eastern area ofVenezuela) and weighs 170 tonnes.The columns moved by 2 x 8 linesScheuerle had to overcome a smallmountain with 10% slope.

Three MAN trucks with 400 HP wereneeded to pass this difficult part ofthe 300 km transport route.

The heaviest columns of this projectwere 250 and 210 tonnes deliveredin Jose and lifted by MammoetVenezuela.

Rosarito/Hermosillo - Alstom Power, Baden, Switzerland contracted Etarco de Mexico todevelop and execute the logistics plan to move super heavy items like turbines (230 tonnes),generators (325 tonnes) and transformers (220 tonnes) from North American ports of entry to the sites in Rosarito and Hermosillo, Mexico.

The Hermosillo project was rathersimple. It required receiving items atthe Guaymas Port onto 18 lines ofhydraulic trailers. The transport dis-tance from there on is some 200kilometres. Mammoet only had tomodify seven bridge structures and applied jacking and skiddingsystems.

The Rosarito Project offered morechallenges. The customer assumeda process that involved a barge,meaning a great risk in managingthe surf and spray water.Mammoet dispatched the items

to the Port of San Diego. They were the largest pieces everhandled in Southern California. The next step was to load the itemson 24 lines of SPMTs, followed bytransloading onto rail cars for the 25 kilometre shipment to Tijuana,Mexico, and subsequent trans-loading on 24 lines of hydraulic trail-ers for the 30 kilometre highwaydrive to the job site.

To achieve all this, Mammoet engi-neered studies of the port piers, railtracks and Mexican highway infra-structures. It appeared the piers

could handle the pieces, while the railtracks needed some adjustments. These two projects occurred at thesame time, and Mammoet deliveredall 9 pieces exactly on time, asscheduled some 4 months prior to shipment.

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Dubai - Currently, Mammoet Middle East is executing advanced operations for the South ParsGas Field in Iran. The contract was won from Hyundai Engineering & Construction and involvedthe transport and erection of heavy, oversized elements for a new gas processing plant.

In fact, the operations call for 156lifts from a number of shipments, the storage of items, loading ontobarges, sailing from Dubai to Iran,site transportation and delivering theitems on foundations supported bycranes. The operations are co-ordi-nated out of Dubai, which is quite ademanding task as it covers 36,000tonnes of cargo with individual liftsup to 300 tonnes.

Robin Koenis is commercial manag-er for Mammoet Middle East inDubai and he says the South ParsField is the largest of its kind in the world. “We are now up and run-ning for phase 2 and 3 of the TotalSouth Pars project. However, theconstruction site is very isolated andit takes two days out of Dubai to getthere, including boarding oldRussian planes and a five hour drivethrough a rocky dessert. Since there

are no port facilities in Iran, all heavyitems from Korea, Germany and Italyare shipped to the Emirates. They arrive in Port Rashid and JebelAli Port in Dubai. From Port Rashid,the items are transported overlandto Jebel Ali where they are to beloaded onto pontoons. These pon-toons cross the Arabian Gulf toAssaluyeh in Iran.”

Robin emphasises the difficult logis-tics in this project. “Most items orig-inate from Korea, such as 300 tonneheavy boilers. But turbines comefrom Italy and Germany. Upon theirarrival in Port Rashid, we receivethem and store the cargo on a tem-porary site. We take care for cus-toms clearing and port handling. If we have enough heavy items, weload a pontoon. In Assaluyeh weunload the cargo via a specially pre-pared jetty. Unfortunately the

extremely bad weather conditionshave caused delays in the ro/ro-operations. Moreover, we had to lift some items from the pontoondue to weather constrains. Once onland, we moved the items overalmost 3 kilometres over a specialheavy duty road.”

The transportation part takes aboutfour months, while the cranage partis scheduled to last six months.Mammoet has eight cranes avail-able. Among them a 600 tonnecrawler crane, two 450 tonne cranesand several cranes of the 60 tonneclass. The 600 tonne crane is to beoperated in the maximum configura-tion (84 metres main boom and 84 metres jib) when installing a flarestack. Robin Koenis expects morecommercial spin-off from Mammoetspresence on the site, as work is in progress.

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Mammoet FleetNew equipment that has been added to the Mammoet fleet in 2000:

10 LTM 1055 Liebherr telescopic cranes 5 AC 50/1 Demag telescopic cranes 8 GMK 4075 Grove telescopic cranes 1 GMK 5100 Grove telescopic crane

10 Sennebogen 5500 crawler cranes1 CK 2500 Kobelco crawler crane 3 Manitowoc 999 crawler cranes

Various trucks and transport trailers

“Malaysia and Thailand expand their day market activities with telescopic cranes”.

Traditionally Van Seumeren andWalter Wright Mammoet operatedonly ringer and crawler cranes dur-ing the last two decades in Asia.However since the construction of large plants was significantlyreduced after the Asian economiccrisis, the Mammoet Managementdecided to set up a telescopic cranedepot in Malaysia to ensure continu-ity of our Malaysian services.

At the moment Mammoet RomstarSdn Bhd in Malaysia operates thefollowing telescopic cranes from it’sdepot’s in Kuala Lumpur andKuantan:10 RT telescopic cranes 3 truckmounted telescopic cranes3 AT telescopic cranes 1 AT telescopic crane 1 AT telescopic crane

Currently a 200 tonne and a 500tonne AT crane are on the move to Malaysia to compliment this fleet.

For Thailand we recently purchaseda 400 ton LTM 1400. The crane willstay in Thailand where it will be used for day market activities.

Following the integration of Mammoet and Van Seumeren, thetrade department has been renamed into Mammoet Trading.This Department, covering the third core business after projectsand crane rental, is responsible for all purchasing, upgradingand reselling of crane, transport and other equipment. Its ambi-tion is to broaden the scope and to focus on markets thatrequire good quality used-equipment. During the past months,a large number of cranes has been sold as to optimise the inte-grated fleets. “Most of what the two companies had to offerwas complementary” says Jan van Seumeren Jr. “But we managed to restructure this fleet quite efficiently. It put a lot of pressure on the sales network. With the acquisi-tion of Mammoet we now have a global network of offices

through which we can offer a full range of services to our customers” In order to strengthen the sales capacity, Wally Beldon joinedMammoet Trading and will be responsible for the UK and theAmerica’s. His focus will be on creating a new customer port-folio by personal contacts. Although the fleet integration is ademanding job, the trade business went on. “Business asusual I would say. We spot cranes and other equipment, applya complete overhaul and guarantee to our customer that theequipment is operational and safe, in accordance with our ownsafety standards.” As an example, Mammoet refurbished a TC 2000 Demag crane and serviced its engines, axles andhydraulics, in co-operation with the Mammoet Product

Development department. The crane was acquired in Russiaand is now on it’s way to a new owner.In the future Mammoet Trading aims at buying and selling of equipment from other companies as well. It will furtherenhance the market leader position. Parallel to this, training of staff as to increase skills, market knowledge and technicalknow-how is of utmost importance. It enables to support customers in their decision making process.For details of the actual sales inventory please check our website: www.mammoet.com or contact Jan van Seumeren Sr. (jan.sr.van.seumeren@nl.mammoet.com),Jan van Seumeren Jr. (jan.jr.van.seumeren@nl.mammoet.com) or Wally Beldon (walton.beldon@uk.mammoet.com)

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Groningen - The most appealing“house” movement in 2000 was thetemporary removal of a “fin desiecle” building, part of an alreadydemolished gas factory in the centreof the city of Groningen, TheNetherlands. It had to be movedover a distance of 100 metres inorder to clean the soil in accordancewith legal environmental require-ments. The soil around the shed wasexcavated to a depth of one metre,after which the foundation could be

cleared and reinforced. Then theentire building was jacked up 1.5metre. This gave the opportunity toposition 2 x 16 axle lines of SPMTsunder the building. A lot of brasswas present to watch this attractiveMammoet performance, topped atthe end by making a carrousel wisemanoeuvre before the 500 tonnestructure was parked at a temporary location. In three yearsthe building will be moved backagain to its original location.

Lent - Mammoet was awarded acontracted by Bresser/Van ’t Woutfor the transportation of a house overa distance of 100 metres. The housewas 11 metres long, 8 metres highand 11 metres wide. It had an esti-mated weight of 300 tonnes. Despitethe fact that the house was only fouryears old, it had to moved because itstood in the way of a new housingproject. A heavy foundation wasplaced under the house to facilitatethe jack-up and transport. Mammoetused 2 x 10 axle-lines of self-pro-pelled modular platform trailers. Toprove the smoothness of the ride, abottle of champagne and two glass-es were placed on the house. It allarrived on the new location withoutany damage. Nobody recalls whathappened then with the bottle…

Moerdijk - Unirice at Moerdijk, The Netherlands, recently took overtwo large rice silos from Oryza B.V.at Zwijndrecht. By purchasing thesesilos Unirice can expand its produc-tion capacity. The larger silo is 35metres high and can hold 1600tonnes of rice. When empty the siloweighs 200 tonnes. The smaller oneis 25 metres high and weighs 22tonnes. It was apparently a suitablejob for heavy lift expert Mammoetwho shipped both silos in one go. At Zwijndrecht the silos were raisedfrom their foundations and subse-quently driven onto a pontoon. The large silo was transported oncomputer controlled self-propelledplatform trailers on 88 wheels. The smaller silo was moved on aconventional platform trailer towed bya prime mover. After completing theshipment to Moerdijk the silos weredriven off the pontoon and transport-ed over one kilometre on a publicroad before they reached the Uniricepremises. There they were off-loadedand placed onto foundations.

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It’s a boat… it’s a house… it’s a silo… it’s Mammoet!!!

Schiedam - Recently our employeesof the Mammoet Office in Schiedamsaw something different pass by thanjust the familiar seagulls. A yachtweighing 160 tonnes and measuring35 metres in length out of the waterinto a barge with two AC 650’s.

The yacht, which had been built bythe Croatian shipyard “Heli Yachts”,sailed to the Netherlands to partici-pate in a boat show. The boat showwas, however, in Düsseldorf(Germany), and as the sailing mastswere too high, the yacht could notreach that destination along the inlandwaterways.

To get the yacht to the show, themasts were removed in Schiedamand the yacht was lifted into our own“Europa 1” barge. Upon arrival in Düsseldorf the bargeopened at the bow and the yacht wasrolled onto the quay with a 12 axleGoldhofer trailer and heavy transporttruck. A ballast tractor provided thenecessary extra traction as to climbthe ramp to the Messe of Düsseldorf.

We hope that after all these efforts,the Croatian shipyard will find poten-tial buyers for their product!

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The architecture of the bridge is fascinating and shows a styled S-shape. The length is 230 metres, it is 38 metres wide and 26 metreshigh. The bridge parts were manu-factured in Schiedam. Both thereand in Amsterdam, Mammoet cranes assisted in the assemblyof the bridge.

A highlight was the installation of the bridge bows with a PC 4200 inthe lead. It called for two operationsequences. In each one, a bow wasassembled from three parts.

The outer bows come to 160 tonnesbut the middle bow has a weight of240 tonnes. Framework between thebows delivered extra strength. A complicating factor was that thelifting position was in the water.

However, the place is inaccessiblefor floating cranes due to insufficientclearance with the bottom of thelake. So pontoons came to the res-cue, accommodating the crawlercranes. It is expected the Heermabridge will be commissioned as ofmid 2001. By then, the developmentin the reclaimed area can get in fullswing as cars and trucks haveaccess to the isles.

Heerma bridge

Amsterdam - Mammoet executed some eye catching liftingoperations for a double bridge construction that connectsthe isle of Zeeburg with the new suburban area IJburg. The bridge is called Enneus Heerma bridge, after the latechristian democrate politician, alderman and Secretary ofState, who did much to the benefit of Amsterdam. Thebridge is the most important traffic link to the A10 highway.

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It is called the Aalsmeer shuttle and consists of eight sections. Under acontract awarded by the contractorcombination Voormolen, Mammoettransported these sections and posi-tioned them in place in a time frameof six months, using SPMTs. The elements are 27.5 metres long, 6 metres wide and 12 metres high.

They are constructed out of con-crete on a dedicated constructionsite. When ready, each 400 tonnesstructure was jacked to an elevationof 6 metres, the level for its finalmating to the overall structure.

The platform trailers moved underthe structure and took over the load

from the jacks. The actual transportwas done on Saturday mornings, alull in the busy weekly activities ofthe auction. As usual, the transportattracted crowds to watch the mil-limetre precise operations.

Aalsmeer - The famous flower auction has now a new connecting structure between the old auction building and the new transport & dispatch centre at the opposite site of the street.

Highest point forWorld Port Center

Rotterdam - On Saturday 9September 2000, Mammoet lifted alight pole onto the roof of the WorldPort Center, under construction atthe “Kop van Zuid” in Rotterdam.

The operations were executed byone of the largest mobile cranes inThe Netherlands, a Demag AC 650with a main boom of more than 150metres. The light pole fits in a designby Lord Norman Foster.

At its top is a special light construc-tion with 24 lamps, that will be aneye catcher even far fromRotterdam. The mast is made of asteel pipe construction, weighing 4.5 tonnes. It was delivered on topof the building in two sections.According to the constructor, the WPC, has 33 levels and offers42,000 square metres of officespace.

At printing of this issue, the buil-ding just has been commissionedand is taking its position in the sky-line of Rotterdam.

Flower Power

Lifting at level

Rotterdam - Early on Sunday, 23 July2000, the activities started in the cen-ter of Rotterdam to assemble an AC650 telescope crane, fitted with a jib.This was in preparation for the changeout of a cooling unit on the roof of theShell building located at the Hofplein.Access to the unit came after a largehatch was removed. It cleared the wayto get the two old units out and lowerthe two new units in place. As expect-ed, the 145 metres high crane attract-ed quite a crowd. At noon, the showwas over and disassembly of thecrane was in progress.

Cranage at various levels

Oss - Kaal Mastenfabriek B.V. is a renowned Dutch manufacturer of poles andmasts, such as light poles, advertising masts and traffic portals.

Recently, it presented the first mobile telephonemast, disguised as a … pine tree! It is a prototype, imported from South Africa.Mammoet assisted in the assembly by providing a 50 tonnes telescopic crane with 38 metres boomto deliver the tree on its position. The result is fas-cinating: a tree with 1.6 million needles, almostindistinghuisable from a real tree.

Mobile telecommunications is worldwide anunprecedented booming market. Many countrieshave the masts sprouting almost like weeds tocatch up with the market needs. Usualy the mastconstruction is dominating the area and they oftenlook ugly. This is why our customer now presentsan alternative: the tree-mast. As for the treesfruits: their transmission qualities are equal to

those of ‘naked masts’. The artificial pine treeshave been planted already in South Africa and the US. Kaal Mastenfabriek is optimistic about the market prospects and already thinks in termsof a forest…

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The bridge was completely pre-assembled on land and waslaunched over the canal usingKAMAG Self Propelled ModularTrailers (SPMTs) in combination with a pontoon.

Prior to the actual transportation,meticulous preparations were neces-sary. The bridge was built on foursupport towers with lateral transportbeams. At the leading end of thebridge, two 6 axle lines and two 8axle lines SPMTs were inserted. The trailing end was supported witha double set of 12 axle line SPMTs.After closing the canal for shipping,the pontoon was brought into posi-tion during the night at the quay andmoored with winches. Steel rampswere used to span to the quayside.With the bridge load taken on theSPMTs, the final preparations were

made along the transport route. The actual transport started in theearly morning at 06.00 hours. The first leg was to drive the bridgeforwards to bring the SPMTs underthe leading end of the bridge ontothe pontoon. As the weight crossedonto the pontoon, it was necessaryto constantly ballast in order tomaintain level.

Supports were then placed on thepontoon onto which the leading endof the bridge was lowered. This allowed the removal of theSPMTs and the ramps. Now, the second phase started: moving the bridge across the canal. This was accomplished by pullingthe pontoon across the canal withthe mooring winches. At the sametime the trailing end of the bridgedrove towards the canal on the dou-

ble width 12 axle SPMTs. By the endof this longitudinal movement, theSPMTs had reached a speciallydesigned construction at the quay.The bridge was placed on that tem-porarily. It should be noted that dur-ing this operation the gap betweenthe bridge placed last year, was only8 cm. The third phase was to lowerthe bridge onto four 4m high jackingstacks (timber grillages) positionedon the land. Each stack had a 600tonne capacity climbing jack.

They were extended as the pontoonwas ballasted down and the SPMTson the trailing end of the bridgewere completely lowered. Thistranslocated the weight completelyonto the land based supports, allow-ing the pontoon (with SPMTs) to beremoved. After that the bridge couldbe lowered onto its final foundation.

A tree is known by its fruit

First class bridge travel

Ladbergen - Mammoet was involved in a spectacular transport operation in Ladbergen,Germany. The objective was to position a 900 tonne bridge over the Dortmund/Ems canal. This bridge is 104 metres long and 20 metres wide. It replaced an old bridge that became a bottleneck as the A1 highway Dortmund - Bremen was expanded from two to three lanes.

Bridges for trains, trams and pedestrians

The bridge close to the CentralStation consisted of two main partsof 34 metres long, 5.5 metres wideand each weighing 120 tonnes. As the road would be blocked duringthe lifting operation a MammoetDemag AC 650 was built up in a very tight time schedule with a 30.5 metres long mainboom and 140 tonnes of counter ballast. In spite of the absence of the super-lift attachment - the confined work-ing prevented the use of it - bothsteel structures were smoothlypicked off the trailers and carefullybrought into position on the sup-ports at a radius of 15 metres.

The same AC 650 was used in a dif-ferent configuration to install fourconcrete beams being the mainframe of a new light rail bridge, eachwith a length of 34 metres and asappeared a slightly higher than

antipated weight of 77 tonnes. The AC 650 main boom measured19.5 metres in this lifting configura-tion and was extended by a 36metre long luffing jib. The counterballast weighed 160 tonnes.Because of the overweight of 8tonnes for each concrete beam theweight limit was waived in consulta-tion of Demag’s engineering depart-ment. Another factor was the weaksubsoil: this was solved by inserting20 metre long pylons under thecrane supports. Herewith the 200 tonne offset wascoped with and the stability of thecrane guaranteed.

In spring 2000 a pedestrian bridgewas installed in Halle over the riverSaale, again with the AC 650 assist-ed by the LTM 1080. During the lift-ing operations various elementswere assembled such as a 40 metre

long pylon and other accessories up to 50 tonnes at a 40 metreradius. To lift a number of elementsfor the middle section of the bridgethe LTM 1080 was placed on a pon-toon and used in that way as a float-ing derrick. The prefabricated bridgeelements were loaded down the river on a third barge and by meansof delicate manouvering of thebarges and precision lifting work of the LTM 1080, the middle sec-tions of up to 15 tonnes were pos-tioned according to schedule andwelded.

The final mounting of the pyloncables required three Mammoetcranes working together: an AC 180,an AC 120 and a KMK 5110.

Halle - Mammoet Deutschland and bridge construction are like bread and butter. Two rail tracks bridges were installed at the end of last year: one close to the CentralStation, bridging a busy street in the center of Halle and another one over the river Saale.

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Tunisia - Mammoet Fostrans ourjoint venture in France, was involvedthrough its client Hyundai Eng.Constr. in the erection of the roofand supporting pylons.

Two LR 1450 cranes with superliftand Manitowoc 888 were used fromoutside the stadium for lifting largeroof sections and 8 x 120 tonnespylons and pendants.

The project was carried outsuccessfully over a period of 6 months early in 2000.

When ready the Tunis RadesStadium can accommodate 65,000 visitors.

Miller Park Stadium

Perhaps the most modern and tech-nologically advanced aspect of MillerPark is also its most eye catching.The stadium has the only fan-shapedretractable roof in North America. It’sseven-panel roof weighs about12,000 tonnes and takes approxi-mately 10 minutes to open or toclose. This feature will allow MillerPark to have a natural grass playingfield inside its building.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries awardedMammoet the contract to install atotal of 30 items, including sevenlarge roof elements. Mammoetassigned the biggest single bodycrawler crane in the world to thisproject. The Demag CC 12600, witha lifting capacity of 1600 tonnes, wasalready in the area for FosterWheeler at the Port Arthur, Texas,site. The giant lifted the first roof ele-ment at the beginning of 2000. Thisroof section had a length of 44metres and a width of 10 metres,

while having a weight of 270 tonnesincluding hook, slings and the spe-cial in-house designed adjustablesling. Although the centre of gravityof the roof section has been calculat-ed in advance, the adjustable slingsallow for real-time corrections due tosmall offsets. This feature shortensthe lifting operations and enhancesthe safety level as well.

Frans van Seumeren Jr., wasassigned to this site for almost ayear. He recalls some events. “Wehad to assemble the movable roof,which consisted of many 300 tonnessections. They were manufacturedon the site and we lifted them intoposition with the CC 12600. Ourcrane had a 90 metres main boomand 72 metres jib. This enabled us to safely cover the 70 metres radiusbetween the crane and the load.”Frans said that safety was guaran-teed during the execution of this pro-ject. “We could count on our own

engineer who could calculate everymove we wanted to make. This isreally important, since we deal withvoluminous sections that can catchwind loads as well”. What was most remarkable to him?“It was quite a different experience.On a refinery you have no perceptionof what is going on outside yourworking area. But here you’re in themiddle of the news, with lots ofpress coverage. There was hardly a day without an article in the localnewspapers. I think the project con-tributed to our corporate image to a broad audience in a very effectiveway” says Frans van Seumeren Jr.

The Miller Park is now completedand is one of the heaviest structuresin Wisconsin weighing about 500,000tonnes. This includes 25 miles ofdeep piles, 70,000 cubic yards ofstructural concrete, roughly 4,600pieces of pre-cast concrete and24,000 tonnes of structural steel.

Milwaukee - During recent years Mammoet gained a lot of experience in constructing large stadiums. After de Amsterdam ArenA, home to thefamous soccer club AFC Ajax, the PSV Philips Stadium in Eindhoven, the Feyenoord Kuip (‘The Bowl’) stadium in Rotterdam, the Netherlands,and the Louzniki Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, the focus is nowon Miller Park in Milwaukee, USA. This stadium is the new home for theMilwaukee Brewers Baseball Club.

The new bridge was constructed intwo parts, one large and anotherslightly smaller. SPMTs (Kamags)were used to transport the parts onpontoons, for which two sets of 10axle lines were deployed. They rotat-ed the bridge parts through ninetydegrees on the pontoons, afterwhich both pontoons could be posi-

tioned in the right place between thetwo pillars and anchored. The bridge parts could then be liftedup with our newly developed jackingsystem and placed on the pontoons.The old bridge was then lifted withthe SPMTs and deposited on theback of the pontoons. Now the waywas clear for positioning the new

railway bridge. The old bridge ele-ments were lifted away in reverseorder with the jacking system andthe Kamags, after which the oldbridge could be demolished. The complicated operation was car-ried out within the deadline of 24hours, so that the line could beopened once more for rail traffic.

Montreal - Etarco Mammoet recently replaced a complete railway bridge in Montreal(Quebec). One added difficulty was that the complicated operation had to be carriedout within 24 hours above the fast-flowing Canadian St. Lawrence river.

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Vlissingen - Heerema Havenbedrijf B.V. set a personal company record when it finished a 5,722 tonnes heavy and 145 metres long jacket for the Heimdal riser platform.

It is also a record in terms ofrequired transport capacity. Duringthe nine months construction period,Mammoet cranes provided assis-tance. But at the end, the completedstructure had to be loaded out ontoa sea going barge. The Heimdalplatform is an extension to an exist-ing production platform for naturalgas in the North Sea. It is to be connected to the main platform with a bridge.

The complex is runned and man-aged by Norsk Hydro. In September1998, Heerema Havenbedrijf B.V.won the contract for the design andmanufacturing of the jacket, which isthe lower part of the riser platform. The company is a member of theHeerema Fabrication Group. AnotherHeerema company, Tønsberg fromNorway, provided the top side. The design was completed byAugust 1999 and the construction

was ready early 2000. On 30 March,the load-out onto a barge (160 x 42 x 10.6 metres) was carriedout. It required incoming tide, aswell as 234 axle lines of SPMTs with936 wheels to drive the jacket on thebarge. Mammoet used 30 ballastingpumps additional to the barge stan-dard equipment, as to balance thestack carefully. Shortly after fastening, the jacket setsail for the North Sea.

The transport started in the assemblyhall. According to Grootint, the gasprocessing platform has beendesigned and manufactured in arecord 52 weeks. It is to support adaily production of 6 million cubicmetres natural gas from the Dutchsector of the Continental Plateau. The operator is Wintershall.Ludo Mous was responsible for theMammoet load-out. As a project man-ager he recognises great synergypotential within the new Mammoetcompany. “We can now mobilise 600axle lines SPMTs with a total capacityof 19,000 tonnes. This means that wecan achieve super heavy load-outswith our own equipment and are nolonger dependent on the availability ofthird parties. In addition, we have our

inhouse developped and advancedcomputer managed ballasting system.This facilitates very accurate opera-tions, necessary for both load-outs onwheels and by skidding. The systemmonitors the content of the ballasttanks and drives the pumps that canbring in or out up to 1,300 cubicmetres of water per hour. All pipinghas been made of plastics and arequite easy to handle. Moreover, allequipment fits nicely in 20 ft open topcontainers.”Mous recalls some other intriguingload-outs in 2000. “To us, the top ofthe bill is the load-out of theShearwater deck, which set a worldrecord. The weight was 11,772 tonnesand we used 1,704 wheels to move it on the Amec yard in Wallsend, UK.

The Heerema load-out from Vlissingenwas a good rehearsal for this giantwork. Also the Snorre B project inNorway is still on my mind, as wejacked five modules of 5,000 tonneseach to an elevation of 4.5 metres.This would have been very difficultwithout our smart-jack system, whichis computer operated and counts for16 jacking units, each with 600 tonneslifting capacity. Each move of the jackis monitored closely. The load gets upin a very controlled and thus safeway.” Right now, Mous is involved inthe preparations of yet a bigger load-out of an almost 12,000 tonnes plat-form. The site move and load-out isscheduled for 2002 and 2003.

Zwijndrecht - Another major load-out onto a sea going barge took place at Grootint,Zwijndrecht (The Netherlands). The structure, an offshore platform deck (L8-P4), rolled onto the barge on top of 104 axle lines SPMTs with 416 wheels.

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Mammoet’s experience in providing a complete range of services for the off-shore manufacturing industry dates from the seventies. A wealth of practicalknow-how has been gained and is acknowledged by the major players in the

offshore industry. The full scope of heavy lift services includes site moves,load-outs and load-ins, weighing, mooring, ballasting, tailor-made heavy liftsolutions, crane rental and complementary services.

Offshore

Mammoet dedicated to offshore

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Mexico - The Pemex Canterall EPC-1 contract was awarded by Brown &Root Houston, Texas, to Mammoetback in September 1999. The workinvolved the design, provision,installation and operation of a trans-portation and ballasting system.This would support the load outonto barges of four Pemex EPC-1modules, each weighing up to 6,500tonnes. Pemex EPC-1 consist oftwo topside structures, named AC-2and AC-3, each divided into twomodules. Mammoet was contracted

to provide 270 lines of SPMTs,besides hydraulic ballasting sys-tems, including the full monitoringpackage and all necessary steelworks and ro -ro ramps. The firstload out was executed onDecember 4th 2000, with the sec-ond module on the 15th December2000. The 3rd and 4th modules areto follow mid March 2001. DarrenAdams, Director of Global Transport,stated that this first wheeled loadout carried out in the Brown & Rootyard, headed by Dennis Theis, wentextremely well.

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An 11 million 772 thousand kilos(11,772 tonnes) weighing integratedoffshore deck - 70m long and 63mhigh - was moved on 426 axle linesof self-propelled modular trans-porters (SPMTs). Mammoet wheeledthe giant from the construction yardvia roll-on/roll-off ramps onto aseagoing barge that was later towedout to Central North Sea, 200 km offthe Scottish Port of Aberdeen.

The combined process plant and living platform is the biggest oil andgas construction platform evermoved on wheels. It has been builtfor the Shearwater Development,operated by Shell with Esso, Arcoand Mobil as co-venturers. A total

of 1,704 SPMT wheels were in placeunder the structure to perform thesite move that included a 90degrees rotation to align with theload-out ramp and barge.Mammoet’s SPMT transport systemrequires a minimum of space duringthese kind of operations, making itversatile and efficient at any (con-fined) construction location.

The one-man operated steering hasproved again to be a very preciseway of moving extreme heavy loads.The 4- and 6-axle lines units, with apayload of 30 tonnes per axle line,can be coupled in many differentways to accommodate the weightand size of the load.

Newcastle - A record setting transport operation started at Amec’s Wallsend yard on the river Tyne in North East England.

Stord/Egersund - Major heavy lift operations were executed last year for the construction of an oil production platform in Norway. At Aker Stord various jacking-, site moves- andload-out operations were executed in various stages.

Three separate parts for a utilitymodule were loaded in and put downon the Aker Stord yard, so that thesecould be assembled to one module.The 3,850 tonne module was lifted toa height of 3.4 metres with twelvejacks and then loaded out onto twobarges. A drilling module was jackedto a height of 0.6 metres on a bargebefore loading in. This module wasput down on the quay on twelve pre-installed jacks and raised 2.8 metres.By then, the 4,750 tonne module wasloaded out onto the two barges,matching the already placed utilitymodule.

At Kvaerner Egersund a 4,250 tonneprocess module was moved on thesite and after final constructionloaded out onto an ocean goingbarge. The 950 tonne weighing P50module was moved from the con-struction hall to the quay side andloaded out onto a barge afterwards.

At Leirvik Sveis on Stord, a livingquarter was built and loaded out ontoa barge and shipped to Aker Stord

for load-in. This was folllowed by asite move to the end of the dockbefore another load out onto a dockbarge. The 1,600 tonne living quarterwas rotated 90 degrees on the bargefor perfect matching and lining lateron for intergration with the deck.

Complicating factors were the 4metres high supports on the Kamagsand the delicate jacking operations.

Also the barges had to be ballastedsimultanuously to keep them levelduring the load-out operations. Together all units will form one25,000 tonne heavy platform whichwill be operational for the winning of oil and gas in the Norway waters.

Snorre B project

Heaviest offshore structure ever moved on wheels

Pemex Canterall EPC-1 ProjectPort of Iberia - For client OmegaNatchiq Industries Inc. a 500 tonnedeck was lifted by six cranes simulta-neously. The Mammoet CC 4000 wasthe main crane in this spectacular lift-ing operation for stacking two decks.

The deck was picked up and whenthe required elevation was reached,all six crawlers cranes moved side-ways to position the deck over thelower floor. Just a few weeks later, a third deck was installed on top. Prior to the lifts, Mammoet hadalready jacked the lower platform to about 3 metres and installed loadspreaders for the final load-out withMammoet’s SPMTs.

Obviously, operations like theserequire great skills from both opera-tors and lifting supervisors. Theentire operation took only half a dayto complete.

Multi crane lift

RDM Technology Holding purchasedthe ships back from the Ministry ofDefense, after they had been decom-missioned in 1995, completing quitea history of service. Their next mission is to serve astraining vessels and to show to inter-ested people the working and livingcondictions in a submarine.

Their new destination is in the FarEast, to be reached by dock ship.Before ‘boarding’ these ships, thesubmarines were to be carried bySPMTs of Mammoet to the specialship elevator on the yard. Distancewas no issue: the 80 metres werecovered in less than 30 minutes.

Upon arrival, the first 1,600 tonnessubmarine was lowered into the water and towed to the dock shipSmit Explorer. The operation was closely monitoredby RDM personnel, marking probablythe last time they would ever see‘their’ ship again. Meanwhile, prepa-rations for the second submarinewere well under way. Hydraulic jacks were used to elevatethe boat to accommodate the SMPTsunder its belly. The transport required80 axle lines.

It was a breath taking view to see thetwo rows of cars with their enormousload moving slowly to the water frontwhere the ship elevator was waitingagain. At the same time, the crew of the Smit Explorer was busy tomanoeuvre their ship preciselybeneath the submarine, a demandingtask that took quite some time. Threetugs assisted and then later on theTijgerhaai met its ‘brother in arms’.The voyage to a new future was on.

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Ports and Shipyards

Submarines on wheels

Mammoet was called in to remove the wreckagein a minimum of time in order to continue ship-building as soon as possible.The Mammoet engineers calculated a salvageoperation with Mammoet’s MSG 50: this cranewould remove the 1,550 tonne gantry crane inone spectacular lift. In addition, the remains of the overhead gantry crane were lifted off theship and removed from the dock, after which thevessel under construction was accessible for theworkers again. For temporary lifting capacityMammoet mobilised five of its high capacity lat-tice boom crawler cranes, which were busyassisting the assembly of several newbuildingvessels during the year 2000.

In the meantime, a new overhead gantry cranewas ordered at M.T.F. in Germany. It was deliv-ered in separate parts to the Odense Shipyard.Again Mammoet was called in to assemble thesepieces into a complete overhead gantry crane.Currently, a Demag CC/PC 4200 is on the site, as well as 52 axle lines of SPMT. The SPMTs areused to offload three 800 tonne weighing struc-tures from barges. These three pieces are con-nected to each other again by using the SPMTtrailers. The additional parts, like the bogies andtrollies, are assembled and attached with theCC/PC 4200. At the same time the MSG liftingsystem is being assembled in a gantry configura-tion with a lift capacity of 5,200 tonnes.

Odense - Last year,Odense Shipyard’s owngantry crane was over-turned by a severe stormthat passed throughOdense on an unfortunateFriday.

Odense Steel Shipyard

Rotterdam - One of the most media attractive loadouts of 2000 was the relocation of the submarines Zwaardvis(Swordfish) and Tijgerhaai (Tiger shark) on the premises of RDM at Rotterdam.

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Birkenhead - The ship was cut intotwo pieces, after which a new sec-tion could be inserted. The cus-tomer, Cammell Laird, planned forthat section to be built in a con-struction workshop at the shipyard.As this workshop was not highenough to construct the section inone piece, it was decided to build itin two parts.

The first phase of the project wasthe assembly of the two parts, whichwas achieved in front of the con-struction workshop on a 5%descending slope. The MSG hoistingsystem was installed with four 55-metre high hoisting towers linked bytwo gantry beams. Four top frameswere mounted on each gantry beam,supporting eight strand jacks, each

with a lifting capacity of 900 tonnes.To reinforce the gantry system, fouradditional 100-tonne strand jackswere mounted on the ends and across bracing was fitted lengthwaysbetween the towers.

The top section was transported ontwo sets of 32 axle lines of Kamagsand two sets of 32 axle lines ofScheuerles. Once the sixteen liftingpoints had been attached to the topsection, the other part could behoisted up in the construction work-shop. An important advantage of theMSG hoisting system is the ability toadjust the hoisting power of eachstrand jack individually. This keepsthe tolerance of the deflection of theroof within the applicable norms.Once the top section had been lifted

29 metres, the second piece couldbe moved underneath and placed onthe Mammoet sliding system thatwas already in place. The top sec-tion was then lowered and fixed ontop of the lower section by weldingit together. This completed the mid-dle section of the ship. The secondphase for Mammoet was to slide the complete middle section, with a weight of 6,500 tonnes, from itstemporary location in front of theconstruction workshop to the water front.

Mammoet Global was involved in the extension of the cruise ship Costa Classica in Birkenhead, England.

Lisbon - In order to upgrade seven harbourcranes, ranging in weight from 300 to 670 tonnes,Mammoet Spain was contracted for their shippingand transportation from the Maqueira Yard inLisbon to the Mitrena Yard in Setubal, approxi-mately 50 kilometres south of Lisbon.

The contract was won together with Entreposeand called for excution in four phases. Phase oneand two were the load-outs at the Maqueira Yard,shipping to and load-ins at the Mitrena Yard,where the cranes were repaired and painted at atemporary location.

The supply of the barge and seafastening was carried out by Entrepose. The third and fourthphases of the contract included the site moves of the cranes to their final locations.

The customer was pleased with Mammoet’s per-formance as we found a solution to avoid crossingthe original docks during the site transport. These docks were all occupied with ships underrepair. Lisnave, the new owner of the cranes, sawits waste in production time minimised.

Szczecin - A shipyard in Szczecin,Poland, recently needed an extensionof their gantry crane capabilities. The shipyard produces around 20 ships per year. To meet this chal-lenge, a new dock and a new gantrycrane was needed. Mammoet wasawarded a contract for the assemblyof the portal crane to be executed inthree phases. Phase one consistedof lifting the legs weighing 250 and

420 tonnes respectively. Phase two included lifting the main beam,weighing 660 tonnes. The beam was 95 metres long and had to bepositioned at a height of 80 metres.Phase three called for the fitting two lifting trollies. All lifting activities were carried outby the Platform Twin Ring crane,which could provide these servicesfrom one position.

The entire operation was managedby Mammoet Global, Rotterdam. It included shipping, assembly, lift-ing, disassembly and the returnshipment and took about ten weeks.

Lower it steady and easy…

Bremen - At the Bremen Vulkanshipyard a complete 2,000 tonneoverhead crane was lowered with an engineered gin pole version.

The MSG lifting device had beenassembled up to a height of 104metres. Four free-standing towers of containerised mast components,capable of lifting 4,200 tonnes, supported two lifting beams on top of four MSG strand jacks as to lower the massive crane in onesmooth movement.

Expansion of Polish Shipyard

Gone with the cranes…

Extension of the cruise ship Costa Classica

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One boat measured 425 tonnes andthe other 452 tonnes. The yachts,ready for shipment on 12 December2000, were fitted with cradles for thesite transportation. The cradles wereprovided by the customer, allowingMammoet to position the SPMTsunder the ships. After weighing, thefirst yacht was lifted and moved 250metres away for loading onboard theheavy lift vessel, ‘Happy Buccaneer’,using the ship’s own 550 tonne

cranes. The second yacht followedthe next day.

MS “Happy Buccaneer” headed forThe Netherlands with the yachts asdeck cargo. After arrival on Sunday,7 January 2001, the yachts wereloaded-in at the Mammoet HeavyLift Terminal in the Rotterdam area.They were then towed to theOceanco shipyard in Alblasserdam.Four 6-axle line SPMT units served

the transfer at that site from theboatlift to the assembly hall for theirfinishing ‘touch’.

Durban/Schiedam - Mammoet Southern Africa received acontract to weigh transport and ship two yachts overseas.

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This project required so much capa-city that it caused a shortage in avail-able dredging ships. Unfortunately,ordering new ships takes too muchtime. Boskalis found a solution bybuying a used dredger in Russia. This ship had to be upgraded and forthis, Keppel Shipyard in Singaporewas asked to cut the ship into twoparts and to insert a new midsection.The idea to achieve this is rather sim-ple. Put the ship in a dry dock, cut itinto two sections, skid the front partforward and insert a new section witha floating crane. The front section hada weight of some 4,500 tonnes. The shipyard checked with Mammoetwhether they could move this sectionwith the MSG skidding system.

No problem, of course, and Mammoetthus skidded the front section, afterwhich the midsection was positionedin between the two ship halves with a floating crane. Mammoet then had to move the front section back.The advantage of the MSG skiddingsystem was obvious when the twosections were mated precisely byraising and tilting the 4,500 tonnessection in a very easy manner.

This project marked the first time the MSG skidding system was usedin South East Asia for such an operation. Earlier a similarly uniqueoperation was executed in Tel Avivwhile skidding a complete embassybuilding.

Singapore - Dredging companies experience a worldwideupsurge in the market. At this moment, several large develop-ments are in progress such as at Jurong Island, often referredto as the biggest land reclamation project of the century.

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Cranage in South Africa

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Cape Town - Mammoet Southern Africa was awarded the contract to remove the legs of theRBF 185, a jack up Oil Rig owned by R&B Falcon Drilling, based in Houston, USA. The jackup rig was on its way on the Tem barge to a new contract in Brazil when due to a severestorm one of the legs broke off close to the South African coast.

Manila - On the weekend of 8-9 July,2000 a typhoon caused major damageto two container handling cranes atthe ATI container handling facility inManila South Harbor. Impsa PortSystems (IPS) was awarded by ATIPhilippines the contract for theremoval of the damaged cranes. Each crane weighed 550 tonnes.Mammoet Singapore was contractedby IPS to remove the damaged cranesfrom the wharf and bring them byseagoing barge to Kuching - Serawak- Malaysia were they would be over-hauled and re-used for the Kuchingport. Less then one week afterMammoet received the award for

the removal of the cranes, a bargeequipped with winches, ballastpumps, massive load spreadingbeams and 48 axles SPMTs sailedfrom Singapore to Manila. The removal was not as straightfor-ward as it seemed. The containercranes drove into each other duringthe typhoon and the cranes drove outof the rails on the wharf. This resultedin severe damage to the bogeys of thecontainer cranes. Since we could notmove the cranes horizontally anymore, the first task was to jack up thecontainer cranes in order to get theSPMTs underneath them. As soon asthe SPMTs were placed under, the

cranes were loaded onto the barge.Weather conditions were harsh andthe team experienced three typhoonsduring the whole operation in Manila.Even though the weather gods wereagainst us, the operation in Manilawas completed successfully. The barge voyage to Kuching tookonly 10 days. The cranes were safely off-loaded by our SPMTs in Kuching Malaysiaupon arrival.

Manila South Harbor

The broken piece of the leg fell outwards from the rig, so no damage was inflicted on the rig. After safe arrival in the Cape Town port, Mammoet was called in with aManitowoc M4100 ringer to lift the other two legs and the remaining part of the broken leg. For this purpose, an additional 40 ft boom section had to be mobilised from Singapore in order to extend themain boom to 104 metres, which was just enough heightto reach the top of the 89 metres leg. The job took fourweeks to complete. After that the rig sailed to its homebase in the USA for fitting new legs. This project was covered by the South African tv newsnetwork and gave Mammoet some free publicity nationwide in this country.

The Mammoet Manitowoc M4100 ringer crane is becom-ing a popular sight in the port of Cape Town and is verymuch in demand. Since the arrival of the crane it hasbeen in use continuously with only short intervals for moband demob and for maintenance. Currently MammoetSouthern Africa is busy with marketing their heavy liftservices, specifically targeted at the offshore industry andin particular concerning maintenance of drilling platforms.

Harbour authorities have been consulted for a conversionof a pier to make it suitable for load-out activities and otheroffshore activities. This proposal has been received posi-tively and it offers Mammoet the opportunity for stationingheavy crane capacity in Cape Town in the long term.

Edinburgh - Mammoet Antwerprecently moved, in co-operation withJim Parkinson Ltd - a company thatarranging permits for the outsizedload traffic in the UK and Eire - several transformers to the UK. One of the transformers wasshipped by VATech Group from their factory at Linz, Austria to a new plant being constructed inEdinburgh.The 103 tonne weighing transformer

was shipped under contract ofVATech Peebles Transformers Ltd inEdinburgh. Barging from Austria toRotterdam had been arranged byJohn S. Braid and Co. Ltd ofGlasgow. In addition several ship-ments were carried out fromEdinburgh to Austria usingMammoet Antwerp vehicles. The move used a 9 axle lineGoldhofer combination with a gooseneck, which is part of a new range

of equipment recently introduced tothe Mammoet fleet. Jim Parkinson arranged the routingand police escorts in the UK fromTeesport ferry terminal, including apassage through the Corus SteelWorks at Lackenby as to avoid a lowbridge. They also arranged offload-ing at Edinburgh using a jacking andskidding system to manoeuvre thetransformer to its final position in avery narrow space.

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Moreover, the limited volume ofthese resources and our dependen-cy on them, make the energy pro-duction a matter of careful planningand managing. The generation ofelectricity based on wind turbines isclean in the sense that no harmfulgases are being released in theatmosphere. Besides, wind willalways be available. In other words,it is an inexhaustible power source.This is one of the reasons why thewind energy sector is one of thefastest growing environmentallyfriendly form of energy production.Recently, Mammoet received severalcontracts to install such turbines. For the Belgian company Turbo-winds, Mammoet installed five units along the Boudewijn canal in Bruges. These windmills have a capacity of 600 kW each, which is equivalentto the power supply for 700 - 800households per year. The windmills have two mast ele-ments, 55 metres high, a cradle of20 tonnes and a rotor with threeblades, weighing 15 tonnes. The lifting was carried out using an AC 400 and a KMK 5110.

The highest windmill in theNetherlands can be found on thegrounds of Siemens in Zoetermeer.

This “super” windmill supplies theequivalent power needed for 1250

households. Using a recentlyacquired LR 1450-crawler crane witha main boom of 67 metres and a jibof 47 metres, the turbine housingwas mounted on the wing turbine

mast. At sunset the huge rotorweighing 35 tonnes was attached,thus completing the mast. Theassembly of the various parts of thewindmill could be clearly observedby motorists on the adjacent high-way between The Hague andUtrecht. By the end of Novemberlast year this highest windmill in TheNetherlands was officially commis-sioned. The windmill, with a capacityof 1,5 MW has an axle height of 85metres. The diameter of the rotor is70 metres. The "green current" fitsthe policy to stimulate the use ofsustainable energy resources.Siemens is responsible for the reali-sation of this project, and also pro-vided the wind turbine, the trans-formers and the electro-technicalinfrastructure.

Meanwhile, Nuon inaugurated eightwindmills in Peckelsheim, Germany.Their combined capacity is 6 MWwhich is sufficient for the yearly

power requirement for 3000 house-holds. Nuon plans to increase itsfraction of power produced fromsustainable sources to 10% in 2010.Much of it is to be delivered by wind-mills. The eight windmills were man-ufactured by Lagerwey in Barneveld,Netherlands. Mammoet often trans-ports windmills and parts from anyplace in Europe. Masts from Leipzig,rotors from Scotland, generatorsfrom Antwerp, cradles from Schoon-dijke and other parts from Slovakiaand Poland. For instance, MammoetAntwerp took care for fifty transportsto Peckelsheim where a Mammoetcrawler crane assisted the assembly.

Power

Windmills in our mind

Transformers on the move

Bruges/Zoetermeer/Pecklesheim - The availability of electricity is often taken for granted.Almost nobody seems to realise the fact that the production of electricity from natural gasor coal has an impact on our living environment.

Mammoet’s heavy lift activities for the power industry vary from the exchange of steam generators in nuclear power stations to the transport of transformers of all shapes and sizes.

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Corporate identity

De Meern - One of the first actionsafter Van Seumeren and Mammoetjoined forces was the developmentof a new house style. The basic idea was that our newhouse style fits the strategy tochoose “the best of both worlds.”

In our new organisation, we haveopted for the ‘Mammoet’ brandname and logo, including to mentionthe Van Seumeren Group.

The “mammoth” fits perfectly withthe identity of our company. It visu-alises strength and is associated withsomething big like our cranes andscope of work. Additionally, the nameis easily pronounceable and meansthe same all over the world.

The colors in our new house styleare red and black, the former Van Seumeren colors. The color silver was added for the brand mark.

Eventually we arrived at the following logo:

The brand name appears on theequipment in white and can also beprinted in red on other backgrounds.

Our organisation opted for a gradualimplementation. Therefore, it will takesome time before all house style car-riers will feature the uniformMammoet livery.

www.mammoet.com

Only two weeks after the acquisition,Mammoets new website was online.In the first months, lots of informa-tion about the acquisition and thenew organisation structure wascommunicated through this world-wide medium.

Mammoet’s communication strategyis focused on the further develop-ment of the site in order to create anoptimal service for all relations. To achieve this, our site will havesome quite interesting additions inthe coming year.

We won’t reveal what these addi-tions are, just regularly visit our siteand you will find out!

Stavanger - Mammoet presentedits new colors and organisation atthe ONS (Offshore Northern Seas)exhibition in Norway. As the off-shore manufactures are an impor-tant market segment for Mammoet,it was an excellent opportunity todisplay our extended heavy liftactivities and services. Specialattention was given to variousload-out projects, including lifting,jacking and weighing activities. The ONS is the most importantEuropean “oilshow”, held every twoyears at Stavanger, being the cen-ter of the Norwegian oil industry. The exhibition was attended by arecord number of 30,000 visitors.

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Marble Falls - Mammoet Americas performed an impres-sive multi-modal transport for Hyundai and the LowerColorado River Authority by moving a 490,000 lbsreplacement transformer from the Port of Houston to asubstation in Marble Falls in Texas. The transformer wasinitially loaded on one of Mammoet’s low deck railcars byusing a 450 tonne gantry, and railed to a siding some 20miles away from its final destination. At the siding its wasjacked up and slid over to a 12 axle-line Goldhofer, trans-ported for the last leg of the route to the substation. To achieve this transport, a local lake and water reservoirhad to be drained 4 ft to allow the passage through ariver. The 1 ft of water left at the time of the passage,combined with the 6% incline created an extra challenge

for the two Macks and one Kenworth prime mover, but it did not resulted in any problem. Upon arrival the oldtransformer was slid from its existing foundation and the new one, fully dressed, was set on the path, thuscompleting the job successfully.

For these kind of shipments Mammoet provides the pro-per project management. Through years of experiencethey have installed a world-wide network to meet anycustomers requirements. The projects include trans-formers, turbines and generators from 50 to 400 tonnes. For Smit Nijmegen, one of our major customers, wearrange transportation of approximately 30 transformersto different locations all over North America.

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