Jan Douwe de Jong, master student at the Dutch Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz, has won an award for his research into improving communication during heavy-lift operations. He discovered that visual communication is a very valuable...Read more
Jumbo Shipping, the Dutch maritime heavy lift transport and engineering contractor, and SAL Heavy Lift, the German breakbulk and project cargo specialist, are commencing operations with their joint venture. The Jumbo-SAL-Alliance combines both fleets and...Read more
Jumbo has carried out a record trip in India, calling five ports in 29 days and loading and delivering thousands of tonnes of project cargo with its heavy lift vessel Fairpartner. It is the longest...Read more
SAL, a German breakbulk and project cargo specialist, and Dutch maritime heavy lift transport and installation contractor Jumbo intend to form a joint venture. The companies say that combining a large part of their fleets,...Read more
Jumbo has developed a machine to remove persistent flash rust caused by the removal of temporarily welded securings on board its heavy-lift vessels. The device removes flash rust faster than the existing methods, improves working...Read more
Jumbo has completed the transport part of its largest transport and installation job to date. Using its heavy lift vessels as well as subcontracted deck carriers forty monopiles, 120 monopile sections and forty transition pieces...Read more
Jumbo has shipped a 1,35-tonne shiploader measuring 135 x 25 x 43 metres. The piece of equipment was loaded on the heavy lift vessel Jumbo Kinetic and transported from Vietnam to Canada. The shipping company...Read more
Jumbo’s heavy-lift vessel Fairpartner has set a new lift record in the port of New Orleans while unloading two hydrocracking reactors for an oil major. The reactors weighed 1467 and 1508 tonnes, making them the...Read more
Jumbo Offshore has installed a 14-point FPSO mooring system at a depth of 1760 metres, breaking its own deepwater record. The project was carried out in preparation for the installation of the first FPSO ever...Read more
Jumbo has completed the first of two contracts supporting Subsea 7 projects for Total in Angola. For the first time, Jumbo has used augmented reality for shimming points. Using HOLO Lens, the precise positioning of...Read more
Branching out into offshore wind has been the right decision for Dutch companies like Van Oord and Boskalis. SWZ|Maritime’s Editor-in-Chief Antoon Oosting points out they can now benefit from the increase in offshore wind projects...Read more
Jumbo has transported two Ship-to-Shore container cranes, a cargo in excess of 1500 tonnes, from Taicang, China, to the Port of Immingham on the UK’s east coast. To ship two cranes this size in one...Read more
As of November 1st, Managing Director Ki Jun Park of Jumbo Korea hands over the management to Jason Hwang. Park will continue as an advisor to the board, ensuring that Jumbo will be able to...Read more
Loaded with multiple cargoes for multiple clients from ports in Spain, Italy and Greece, Jumbo Vision recently arrived in the USA with loads bound for Florida, Louisiana and Texas. The ‘fix’ included a large shipment...Read more
Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan is set to feature 80 Siemens Gamesa 8-MW turbines. Among other things, Jumbo has been hired to transport 40 transition pieces. The first 10 have now been loaded onto...Read more
Jumbo Offshore partnered with Solis Marine to prepare its vessel Jumbo Javelin for the transport and installation works at the Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan, after the company’s engineering team itself was unable to...Read more
Alewijnse has finished the electrical conversion on board the heavy lift crane vessel Jumbo Javelin. For this conversion, the company engineered, manufactured and delivered several new switchboards and modified systems for power management and alarm...Read more
With few profitable investment opportunities left as a result of the coronavirus, oil companies will likely increase their spending on decommissioning contracts. Global projects through 2024 could reach a value of 42 billion dollars, say...Read more
The Jumbo Jubilee is on its way to Algeciras, Spain, after loading two 1400-tonne reactors and three smaller ones in the Port of Venice. The reactors were placed on board using the ship’s two 1800-tonne...Read more
Following the Dutch measures to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, Jumbo Shipping has reported its ships have received the necessary instructions and, for now, continue their schedule. The company’s offices have been closed...Read more
