Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
Project Cargo, Heavy-Lift and Module Carriers glossary (page 2)
The heavy-lift and project-cargo vocabulary: the multipurpose operators and their vessel classes (AAL A-Class), tandem heavy-lift crane work, and the stowage and lift-planning terms for oversize and project cargo. Grounds each term in the heavy-lift vessel or the project-cargo operation it belongs to.
322 defined terms.
Showing 72 on this page (page 2 of 2).
P
- PSV
- Platform supply vessel; cargo deck plus mud/brine/methanol tanks.
R
- Reel-lay
- Pipeline installation from a vertical reel onto seabed.
- Ro-Ro
- Roll-on/Roll-off vessel for wheeled cargo, occasionally combined with container decks.
- Rolldock Sea
- Rolldock heavy-lift vessel.
- Rolldock Shipping
- Netherlands-based heavy-lift operator combining lift-on/lift-off, roll-on/roll-off and float-on/float-off capability.
- Rolldock Star
- Rolldock heavy-lift vessel.
- Rolldock Storm
- Rolldock heavy-lift vessel.
- Rolldock Sun
- Rolldock heavy-lift vessel.
S
- S-Lay
- Pipelay method using a stinger to control the overbend at the vessel stern and a sagbend at the seabed touchdown.
- Saipem
- Italian offshore engineering contractor active in offshore wind, floating solar, hydrogen, and CCS projects with Equinor and others.
- Saipem 7000
- Semi-submersible crane vessel capable of heavy-lift and J-lay pipelay operations, owned by Saipem.
- Saipem Heavy Lift
- Saipem business segment covering offshore heavy-lift construction.
- SAL Engineering
- SAL Heavy Lift's in-house engineering team providing lift, lashing and transport studies.
- SAL Heavy Lift
- Hamburg-based heavy-lift operator founded in 1865 as Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land, majority-owned by Harren & Partner since 2017.
- Samsung Heavy Industries
- SHI, Korean shipbuilder at Geoje, building LNG carriers, drillships, and FPSOs.
- SBM Offshore
- Schiedam-headquartered FPSO operator and engineering contractor, the largest FPSO owner by fleet with around sixteen units.
- Schoeller Holdings
- Cyprus-based ship management group, former parent of AAL Shipping.
- Self-sustaining
- Vessel fitted with its own cranes able to load and discharge without shore equipment.
- Semi-Submersible Crane Vessel
- Heavy lift vessel with deep draft semi-submersible hull providing motion stability for high lifts.
- Seven Borealis
- Subsea7 pipelay and heavy-lift vessel of about 182 m length.
- Sevenstar Yacht Transport
- Yacht logistics company within the Spliethoff group.
- Shell Prelude
- Shell-operated FLNG unit, the world's largest floating offshore facility.
- Skidding
- Method of moving heavy modules across deck or onto vessel by hydraulic skid shoes on greased beams.
- Sleipnir
- Heerema semi submersible crane vessel with twin 10,000 t cranes used on offshore substation and foundation installation.
- Slewing Bearing
- Large bearing supporting the rotation of heavy-lift cranes on offshore and MPP vessels.
- Snam
- Italian midstream operator owning FSRUs deployed in Italian regasification.
- Solitaire
- Allseas pipelay vessel of 397 m length, the world's largest pipelay vessel by tonnage and lay tension.
- Spliethoff
- Amsterdam-headquartered group operating Spliethoff's Bevrachtingskantoor, BigLift Shipping, Sevenstar Yacht Transport, Wijnne Barends, Bore and Transfennica.
- Spliethoff's Bevrachtingskantoor
- Spliethoff group multipurpose shipping line.
- Statsraad Lehmkuhl
- Historic Norwegian tall ship, occasionally cited in heavy-lift literature as a non-cargo project vessel.
- Stellaprima
- Jumbo Shipping heavy-lift vessel rigged with two 900-tonne mast cranes for tandem heavy lifts.
- Stinger
- Curved overboard ramp on S-lay pipelay vessels.
- Subsea7
- International subsea contractor whose vessels and ROVs support offshore wind cable repair and inspection.
- Sun
- Combi Lift heavy-lift vessel of the Harren Group fleet.
- Swan
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel of the legacy Dockwise fleet.
- Symphony
- Van Oord cable installation vessel ordered in 2023, a successor design to Nexus.
- Symphony Shipping
- Netherlands-based MPP operator.
T
- Tagus
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Talisman
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Tamerlane
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Tan Cang
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Target
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Teekay Offshore
- Former name of Altera Infrastructure, the Bermuda-domiciled offshore midstream operator.
- Tern
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Thialf
- Heerema semi submersible crane vessel with twin 7,100 t cranes, used on offshore substation and foundation installation.
- Thorco Projects
- Project cargo arm of Thorco Shipping.
- Thorco Shipping
- Copenhagen-based multipurpose and project carrier operator.
- Topsides Installation
- Offshore operation in which an integrated platform topside is set onto its substructure, increasingly by single lift.
- Trader
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Transfennica
- Spliethoff group container and ro-ro operator on Baltic and North Sea trades.
- Transshelf
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel of about 173 m length.
- Treasure
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Triumph
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Trustee
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy-transport vessel.
- Tweendeck
- Intermediate deck in multipurpose vessels.
- Twin-Crane Tandem Lift
- Heavy-lift technique using two cranes on the same vessel to lift one load.
U
- UHL
- United Heavy Lift, Bremen-based heavy-lift carrier specializing in F900 Eco-Lifter vessels.
- UHL Fame
- UHL F900 Eco-Lifter heavy-lift vessel.
- UHL Fierce
- UHL F900 Eco-Lifter heavy-lift vessel.
- UHL Focus
- UHL F900 Eco-Lifter heavy-lift vessel.
- UHL Fortune
- UHL F900 Eco-Lifter heavy-lift vessel.
- UHL Fusion
- UHL F900 Eco-Lifter heavy-lift vessel.
- UHL Future
- UHL F900 Eco-Lifter heavy-lift vessel.
- ULCC
- Ultra Large Crude Carrier, the largest crude tanker category, occasionally converted to FPSO or FSO service.
- United Heavy Lift
- Full corporate name of UHL.
W
- Wagenborg
- Dutch shipping company supporting offshore wind logistics in the southern North Sea.
- White Marlin
- Boskalis semi-submersible heavy transport vessel.
- Wijnne Barends
- Groningen-based MPP operator within the Spliethoff group.
- Wybcargo
- Briese Heavylift series of project carriers.
Y
- Yacht Express
- Dockwise yacht-carrier vessel used for transporting large yachts on a semi-submersible deck.
- Yinson Holdings
- Kuala Lumpur-listed FPSO operator, parent of Floating Production Solutions.
Z
- Zeamarine
- Bremen-based heavy-lift and project carrier operator that ceased trading in 2020.