Dear Reader,
Welcome to our bi-annual magazine. It will not have gone unnoticed that we celebrated our 50 years anniversary last year. Celebrations took place all over the world and across the seas to mark this milestone. The festivities notwithstanding, of course we also “just” went on shipping a great variety of large and heavy cargoes all over the oceans. This issue is one of large cargoes, for the old school energy sector, but especially for the offshore wind industry. Read the remarkable story of our BigLift Baffin, using her DP2 capabilities to deliver 38 foundation jackets to the offshore installation jack-up vessel Aeolus for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm off the Brittany coast. Handing over the jackets to the jack-up platform in challenging environmental conditions required meticulous preparation and execution. A different set of shipments for the offshore wind industry was the shipment of two leg cranes for offshore installation vessels which Happy Sky performed in back to back voyages from Ulsan to Schiedam. In the more traditional energy sector we moved a complete rig from Flushing to Gabon by BigLift Baffin. And in a series of three voyages by Happy Ranger, Happy Dynamic and Happy Buccaneer for the Payara project, carousels and reels, with and without product, were delivered and retrieved from the Saipem Constellation off the coast of Guyana. The snapshots show our versatility, from shipping the latest generation of wind turbines to the delicate mounting of a harbor crane by Happy Star. We wish you a happy reading experience and if you wish to learn more about our activities, we invite you to visit our website or contact us at Communications@bigliftshipping.com.