Jurong Shipyard to construct world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel

For Herema Offshore Services.

Sembcorp Marine’s wholly-owned subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has entered into an exclusive letter of intent with Heerema Offshore Services B.V. for the engineering and construction of a new semi-submersible crane vessel (NSCV).

With a vessel length of 214 meters and a width of 97.5 meters, the NSCV will be the largest crane vessel in the world.

The NSCV is designed to install and remove offshore facilities world-wide and will be equipped with two Huisman heavy-lifting offshore cranes of 10,000 MT lifting capacity each and a large reinforced work deck area.

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