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VAN SEUMEREN GROUP worldwide specialists in heavy lifting and transport

4 2004
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Changing of the guard... page 2

Perform under presure page 4

Heavy atLifting
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A Reverse lifting job at Bass Strait Sea page 14

Vertical challenge page 16
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Changing of the guard…
You may have heard the rumour already. At the
end of this year I will step down as president &
CEO of Mammoet. It has been a mind-blowing
career of 35 years, with three decades in man-
agerial areas. It may come as a surprise, but I’m
really not sad or melancholic about it. Why?
The main reason is that I’m convinced that the new
Mammoet needs new Leadership. An era of stormy
growth gradually changes towards a period of con-
trolled growth and control. Exactly as described in
the well known management literature. Young,
new leaders of today face different challenges than
I did in the past. What’s more about my happiness
is the fact that I’m really proud. Not only on today’s
Frans van Seumeren Mammoet, our valued customers and highly
President & CEO respected crews and staff, but also on finding a
top notch successor within our Van Seumeren
family, the major stakeholder in the firm.
Mammoets’ new CEO will be my youngest brother
‘Combining control, cautious growth and continuity’
Mammoet has come a long way. The merger of
Van Seumeren and the former Mammoet is now
recent history. Two companies with different
roots, different styles of enterprise and different
organizations have become a single enterprise,
one culture, even one family. Nowadays
Mammoet is respected as a market leader in
many fields when it comes to heavy lifting and
transport. The successful merger is largely due
to the effectiveness of Roderik van Seumeren’s
dedicated management. In many respects
Roderik van Seumeren can be considered the
architect of the worldwide organization as it
stands. At the end of the year Roderik will
become CEO of Mammoet, taking over the baton
Roderik van Seumeren, from his brother Frans van Seumeren.
Managing Director & COO.
When he came into office a well-known president
once said “It’s time for a change.” Do you feel
the same?
“Let me first say that I feel very honoured by my
brother’s decision to name me as his successor.
I am inheriting a company I can be proud of. My
brother did a great job of developing Mammoet to
its current size and scope. As he writes elsewhere
in this issue, I was involved in all of the major
decisions. So I learned in detail what is needed to
keep the Mammoet ship on course. However, we
also have to face facts. The leadership qualities
that are needed to assemble a big enterprise differ
from the competencies that are required to assure
its continuity and maintain its position as market
leader and its overall health. This is the reason why,
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Roderik. We worked together for more than 12 years
now and I engaged him in all my major decisions
of the last 7 years. So he’s ready, willing and up
to his job! He’s really the Leader Mammoet needs
now and will ensure continuity, combined with
further controlled expansion. He will preserve our
unique Mammoet culture: a mindset to service for
customers and colleagues alike with high respect
for corporate values and … safety first. Our work-
force of around 2,000 talented man and women
will be kept inspired to work hard, being honest
and maintain loyalty.
As Roderik moves Mammoet to the future as CEO,
his current position will be taken by Patrick van
Seumeren. He is the son of my sister Henneke
and has the same qualifications as Roderik: the
best man for that challenging job. Patrick is a
commercial wizzard with a unique feeling on both
technology and sales. This enables him to trace
as soon as the merger was completed, I devoted
a great deal of effort to integrating the two cultures
and enhancing effectiveness and efficiency so as to
be able to benefit from the best of both worlds. The
‘Mammoet way of working’ which means worldwide
standardization of procedures among others things
and the implementation and use of our SAP ERP
systems are two obvious examples. Naturally,
this is not something that I have achieved single-
handedly. Our managers, staff and crew deserve
considerable acknowledgement for what they have
managed to accomplish in just a couple of years.”
What is your main mission?
“As said before, I want to assure Mammoet’s con-
tinuity. This means I want to ensure that we keep
providing our customers with specially tailored
solutions backed up by our innovative and modern
fleet of equipment operated by highly skilled and
experienced people. To stay at the top we have to
be the best in all respects. As our QSE Manager,
Cronie, says, safety and risk management are our
main priorities. This can only be achieved if you
have complete control of the entire enterprise.
Yet this certainly does not mean that Mammoet is
inclined to shy away from challenging projects.
On the contrary. Managing risks is not the same
thing as avoiding risks. We will continue to seek out
challenges because that’s what made us a great
enterprise – and that’s what we are. My mission
is to implement flexible management so that we
seize opportunities and continue to improve our
services and set trends as market leader.”
down exactly what customers really need in terms
of service, operations and pricing. He is a corner
stone in the Mammoet building.
But there is more in the family. Jan van Seumeren jr,
son of my brother Jan, will join the new Board of
Management. Jan jr will focus on purchasing and
selling cranes and other equipment, as well as the
worldwide maintenance of all Mammoet equipment.
During the last decade he worked in virtually all of
our departments and knows Mammoet like nobody
else. Siem Kranenburg, our CFO remains member
of the new Board.
So the guards change. Just to make sure that you,
as respected (potential) customers may rely on a
continued service at the competitive edge. I like
to summarize briefly our main assets for you:
Worldwide presence and availability of small and
heavy equipment for any lifting and transport job,
even down into the most remote areas on this
planet; The best crews and staff for any job;
Worldwide enigneering capabilities, feeded by
more than 35 years of experience and know-how.
Our corporate values are at the base of any success
and any achievement. I consider it a great honor
and a true recognition of our performance that
both the ESTA and the SC&RA awarded Mammoet
a 1st prize for innovation. Please read the article
elsewhere in this issue.
Well, time to move on. Also for me. You may wonder
what I’m going to do. I really leave the company
and will, together with my wife, start a two-year
journey through Europe. Just walking!
I am honored and pleased for having been at your
service and leading Mammoet through high and
low tides, steady on course. The acquisition of old
Mammoet by Van Seumeren and the salvage of
the Kursk will never fade from my memory. They
mark our true spirit: believe in what you do and do
what you believe in.
Frans van Seumeren
You mentioned opportunities. Are these occurring
simply in ‘blind spots’?
Yes, ‘blind spots’ – by which I mean ‘non-traditional
markets’ – are certainly areas in which opportunities
are likely to occur. Especially given that we have a
workforce of flexible people who are willing to fulfil
their obligations to our clients all over the world.
But, surprisingly enough, there are also challenges
and opportunities right here on our doorstep in the
Netherlands. I’d like to emphasize the fact that
Mammoet continues to serve and to develop
services for the low end of the market as well as
the high end of the market. We must never forget
that crane hire, for instance, is vitally important to
our continuity. A casual observer might associate
Mammoet simply with the large eye-catching
projects. Mammoet might be big but it has a
tender heart and is well aware of the diversity of
its roots, its markets and its customers’ needs.
A small local contractor who needs to hire a crane
on a temporary basis can rely on us with the
same confidence as our respected international
customers.”
A final word?
“In documents for internal use I refer to our strategy
for the near future as ‘controlled entrepreneurship’.
These two words embody a certain tension.
Our ultimate goal is to find a proper balance
between structure and control, and flexibility and
entrepreneurship. These opposites are held together
by creativity, nerve, dedication, hard work and
belief in your colleagues and yourself!”
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Marketing & Sales

“Keeping your promise under any circumstance is mandatory”

Patrick van Seumeren,
Managing Director Mammoet Global.
Patrick van Seumeren is going to be the Vice-
Chairman of the Board of Management and
responsible for the alignment of Sales and
Operations. When asked about his personal
mission, the spider-in-the-web says: “My drive is
to develop our customers’ perception that, when
trusting a job to Mammoet, his problems turn
into benefits due to our solution”. Obviously this
doesn’t depend on creativity and innovation alone.
Being trusted by demanding clients is the result
of a long standing track record of clear success-
es, smart approaches and dedicated teams.
This track record is renowned. Yet, it is not
straightforward because quotation and bidding –
summarized with ‘paper work’ – is quite different
from real operations. How do you manage to
keep up with the promises in Mammoets’ offer?
“You are right in the sense that the preparations
and engineering stage is quite different compared
to the execution of a lifting or transport job –
sometimes in cooperation with our very valued
local alliances. But we have several processes in
place to ensure that ‘sales’ and ‘operations’ stay
tuned to each other. First, our engineering people
or sales representatives do exactly know what
field operations mean. We maintain an advanced
policy for job rotation between office jobs and
field jobs. In other words, both sales and opera-
tions employees are made from the same stuff.
Second, in our control room we monitor each job
very carefully, right from the bidding process until
the closing-out of the final operations. I’m proud
to lead a team of multidisciplinary experts that
have in-depth knowledge of marketing, sales,
finances, but also of engineering, logistics and
operations. In addition, my people can rely on state
of the art tools for Enterprise Resources Planning,
monitoring software and facilities to drill-down into
the nitty-gritty of each project. Finally, we do take
into account local culture and habits. It doesn’t
sound spectacular, but when the customer feels
you really understand what he means, it will add
to his trust in you.”
In cases, the solutions that Mammoet offers may
come to a surprise for the customer. Apparently,
certain jobs may take far much less time than
anticipated by the client, saving time, resources
and money. What’s the trick?
“No tricks, really, but for each potential job we
stress ourselves to the limit and ask: are there
different solutions and can we select an alternative
that is better, faster and cheaper? Sometimes the
result is eye-catching, such as the salvage of the
Kursk. But another example is the ‘Baku – jackup
system’. This is based on our skidding system
with 4 skid shoes integrated with 1 jack-up unit,
and subsequently to combine such units. Jacking-
up heavy loads to high elevation is easy then, as
you insert new stopping sections in the jack. We
first applied this system in Baku to jack a 14,750
tonnes deck. Hence its name. The system is safe,
performs excellent and saves lots of time.”
It’s hard to believe that such elegant solutions
can be presented instantly, out-of-the-box.
There must be more…
“Frankly, yes, there is another factor that is manda-
tory if we want to develop money saving solutions.
That is: early participation in the job development.
Sometimes, during the development of an object,
a plant or a heavy load, it is possible to adapt
slight changes. In doing so, an object may become
suitable for the alternative solution. Examples are
the addition of reinforcement, adapters, hooks, and
etcetera. We call this: designing for the solution.
Now you might think, that early participation costs
extra time and thus extra money. However, the net
savings far out way the modest extra investment in
time and resources. I might say that such early
participation is now breaking through and develops
into a trend.”

QSE

“There is always room for further improvement”

Safety is a key property of Mammoets’ perfor-
mance. To maintain high safety standards can be
seen as a kind of insurance to protect assets of
the customer and Mammoet alike. “Of course
this first refers to the safety of people, including
our crews and employees of the customer and
subcontractors. However, safety also applies to
precious equipment, cargo and installations,”
says Bryan Cronie, Corporate QSE Director
Brian Cronie, with Mammoet.
Corporate QSE Director.
Safety should be considered as the result of
many underlying processes. Do you agree with
this statement?
“It is true that many aspects and processes
contribute to safe operations, even in dangerous
or even hostile environments. These could result
from live plant circumstances, nuclear aspects or
weather related circumstances. The goal is, of
course, to avoid incidents with people, equipment
and cargo. There is only one way to achieve this
goal: prevention. And as such, prevention originates
from awareness of our crews, from training and
education, from proper maintenance, from in-depth
engineering, from managerial awareness, the
installation of safety monitoring, frequent safety
audits and many more.”
Unfortunately, Mammoet often must rely on the
performance of local partners, subcontractors,
customer representatives and others. How then,
can you still manage risk to an acceptable level?
“You touch one of the big issues in safety man-
agement. Our strategy is to maintain our corporate
safety standards at all times, even if local laws
or customer regulations would allow for less
constraints. Secondly, we request from any of
our local partners or subcontractors that work for
us, to comply with our standards and to prove that
they can and do. Thirdly, we open communications
as quickly as we can to third parties involved as to
establish safety issues and approach these from
our perspective. Thus, we trigger safety meetings
and have safety officers in charge. They have
extreme responsibilities and may decide over
go/no-go issues.”
Safety also seems a matter of maintenance, not
only of equipment but also of people’s mindset.
“True. That’s why we invest quite a lot in scheduled
and unscheduled safety audits. We then look at
many aspects, ranging from having the proper
documentation in place to physical tests. This
awareness of a ‘sudden audit’ enhances the
willingness of all concerned to stay tuned to
safety. Yes, we do have corporate safety standards
but they’re only worth something if you really live
up with it. Of course, another element is the
proper education and training.
Do you consider the safety policy as a
competitive advantage?
“It shouldn’t be. And I must admit that, fortunately,
most of our respected competitors also acknow-
ledge the importance of safety. But it is up to the
customer to value the safety track record of the
various companies. To my opinion, ours is excellent.
But there is still room for improvement.”
What do you mean with that?
“Having achieved a high level of safety control
shouldn’t be the reason to become ‘lazy’ and
hence to rely blindly on routine. Any lifting and
transport job poses risk and thus should never
be approached as a routine job that can be done
easily. To keep us sharp on the issue, we continue
to set even higher goals. Moreover, as a market
leader in many fields of expertise, customers and
competitors just expect us to set the trend. It’s
a kind of responsibility that goes beyond the
corporate scope and affects the whole industry.
We take this responsibility and keep on moving
upwards our safety standards.”

Training & Education

“Learning and development is key to our success”

Mammoet stands for people, working safe and
with responsibility. Any operator or engineer
receives a basic in-house learning and develop-
ment program. Ben Vermeij is responsible for
rigging and crane courses in The Netherlands.
“With a few hours to a few days at most, relying
on my long experience, I know if a new trainee
has ‘the right ambitions’ or not. Our teachers
maintain strict requirements that the trainees
Ben Vermeij, must meet”.
Trainings Coordinator.
Your colleagues say that Ben runs his own shop.
Do you?
“To some extend yes, but of course all that we
train and learn is directly linked to what operators
can expect in real world situations. Yes, I have my
own school premises here in Schiedam. We have
our own equipment including a complete crane.
All young colleagues, and many others, know
where to find me. To give you some data, last year
we had 200 people attending our basic riggers
training, which takes 3 days.”
What’s the content of this riggers training?
“Two half days are dedicated to learning theory.
Some topics are: communications between rigger
and operator, physical and verbal communications,
words with special meanings, knowledge about
lifting equipment and the use of it, safety issues
and ergonomics. In addition, we spend two half
days to practice things: the real rigging, the han-
dling of a load and the selection of auxiliary lifting
equipment. Then, on the last day, the trainees must
pass a real exam. The independent organization
‘Stichting EVL’ tests the candidates. If successful
they are awarded the official Riggers Certificate.
To some extend, this program is also open for
employees of third parties and we also offer a
one-day course for topics of special interest.”
What happens next to those that passed the exam?
“They start working as rigger for a year. However,
during this period we assist them and monitor their
development. With some interviews we get an idea
about the ambitions and expectations. After this
year we may select them for an advanced course
‘Mobile crane operator’. That’s quite a difficult
learning program, covering 6 weeks. Again there is
a mixture of theory and practice. If the candidate
also passes this exam, he’s on the career track to
‘own’ his own mobile crane.”
So they drive their crane straight away after the
training?
“Not really. First they will be employed with senior,
experienced operators, which we trained as coun-
selor. During an 8-week period the candidate
operator faces real lifting jobs. The counselors
report to me and, frankly, I do a lot of on-site
scouting work myself to develop a good feeling
on the performance of these youngsters. Another
source of information is the branch manager.
I assess the trainees on dedication, understanding
of the work, maintenance, safety, documentation
and technical skills. If all goes well, 2 years after
they start their career they will have a crane of
their own. Currently we have a few dozen of these
people in the training line.”
Is there a further career path?
“Of course. If you manage to improve continuously,
you will become responsible for cranes with more
capacity, all the way up to our high-end cranes and
gantries. Then it also comes to the development of
languages, most of all English, and the willingness
to travel whenever it is needed. Our selection
process is such that we really get the best people
on the most demanding jobs. Mammoet is not a
place for cowboys or softies, but for men and
women with ‘the right ambitions’. So, lots of
opportunities for those that accept real challenges!”

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Petrochemical

MAMMOET
EUROPE
Perform under pressure
Location Moerdijk, The Netherlands
Main equipment PC 4200, AC 500, conventional trailers

Highlight
Mammoet was awarded a new building
contract at a refinery in Moerdijk. The
project had 3 phases: the transport of
a 360 tonnes reactor from Vlissingen
to Seaport Moerdijk Stevedoring, the
transport of the reactor to set-down
area at the refinery at Moerdijk and
the installation of the reactor with 3
additional smaller items.
Due to the subsurface network of pipes,
a ground pressure of more than 3
tons/m2 was not allowed. Thus the
PC 4200 crawler crane had to be placed
on driven piles. To do this, a construction
of steel beams, flaps and bearing
pedestals was made first. The solution
implied that the crane had to be erected
at around 2.5 meters above the ground.
The space for this job was very limited,
adding to the complexity for its execu-
tion. The reactor was driven under the
crane hook on a double 15-liner. The
next step was to connect the head of
the reactor in the crane hook, as to
allow to split the double 15-liner in a
double 9-liner. The reactor then had to
be positioned across the road, as to
accommodate a 500-ton tail crane.
This crane was also used to stack and
unstack the superlift, because due to
the lower permissible pressures, the
superlift could not be put on the ground.
The demanding project was completed
successfully in such a way the customer
exclaimed: “A fine piece of work, very
well prepared and professionally execut-
ed, certainly not easy. Congratulations
with the excellent result which meant a
fantastic milestone to us!”

Engineered super lift at Karlsruhe

Location Kleve and Karlsruhe, Germany
Main equipment SPMTs, conventional trailers, LR 1750, AC 650

Highlight
For a refinery in Karlsruhe, Mammoet was
awarded the contract for the transport and
installation of a new 265 tonne vacuum column.
Firstly, 2 x 12 axle lines of SPMTs transported
the 32 meter long column over a distance of
14 km from the factory in Kleve to a site at the
river Rine. Because of the low water level it was
necessary to construct a 35-meter ro-ro ramp to
the pontoon. The vessel sailed the column to a
harbour at the other side of the river where the
column was transferred to an inland ship. At her
turn, this vessel sailed to a harbour at 4 km
distance of the final destination. A CC 2800 and
the LR 1350 lifted the column onto 2x 9 axle
lines conventional trailers.
In the middle of the live plant, we assembled our
LR 1750. Because of the very restricted space,
1 meter at the backside and only 30 centimeter
on the front site of the crane, we used a
LTM 1200 to install the boom parts by moving
the LR 1750 on its crawlers backwards. Once
assembled the LR 1750 crawled to its lifting
position.
In the meantime, the transport of the column
to the site was executed. The column was first
erected in a vertical position with the LR 1750
as main crane and the AC 650 as tailing crane.
The LR 1750 had then to travel to its new
location. Due to the restrictions in space, there
was only one possible location for the superlift
ballast for the main crane. This space, located
between 2 pipe bridges, was at approximately
21-meter radius. The superlift boom of the
LR 1750 was extended to 45.5 meters.
The second restriction of the location for the
superlift ballast where the 2 pipe bridges.
Because stacking of the ballast at this location
was impossible, the superlift-tray was placed
on our skid system. This made it possible to
stack the ballast in an obstacle free area and
skid the superlift ballast in position. After that,
the column was successfully installed at a
radius of 36.5 meter with 70 meter main boom
and 400 ton superlift ballast. The client stated:
“Congratulations for another job well done.
Perfect engineered and executed”.

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Cool boxes down the street

Location Acrefair, England and Gent, Belgium.
Main equipment Modular trailers, LR 1750, CC 2800 and S 5500

Highlight the total transport height was 6.71 meter.

Mammoet was asked to transport 3 huge
cool boxes over a distance of 78 kilometers
from the manufacturer at Acrefair, England
to a yard at Gent, Belgium. The operations
required extensive planning with several
local authorities to escort the transports
and to remove street furniture.
Most critical part in the challenging transport
route was the transport of the 53-meter
long, 150 tonnes HP/LP Column Box
under the A41 bridge at Whitchurch. The
available clearance was 6.76 meter but
Many people lined the streets to see the
Column Box creep under the bridge. Once
arrived at the port in Ellesmere the items
were transported with a vessel to Belgium.
The 1st 2 cool boxes were installed with
a LR 1750 while the 3rd cool box used a
CC 2800 as main crane. A S 5500 per-
formed as tailing crane. After the transport
of the 1st cool box the customer was so
impressed by our transport team that he
requested the same team for the remaining
2 cool boxes.

Expansions in Turkey
Location Petkim, Turkey


Main equipment CC 4800-3

MAMMOET
AMERICAS
Highlight
Together with local partner Hareket, Mammoet com-
pleted an interesting lifting job in Turkey. Being part of
an expansion project, 4 vessels between 130 and 340
tonnes were to be installed on their foundations. The
longest of these objects measured 75 meters. Before
operations could start, Mammoet completed extensive
engineering on the best solution and instructed local
contractors on how to bring the loads within reach of
the CC 4800-3, an upgrade of the well-known CC 4800.
Hareket supplied a CC 1800 for tailing services.
A special feature was that Mammoets’ crawler crane
had to move with the load on the hook, to cross a
distance of 40 meters. “It’s always impressive to
watch such stacks move” says senior project manager
Maarten de Graaf. “I’ve seen a lot of jobs in my long
career, but every time we see our preparations just
work out well, the move keeps us moving…”

400 Modules on the move

Location Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray
Main equipment 12-line roadstyle, 3-File trailer, prime mover

Highlight
The UE-1 Module Transport contract involved moving over 400 modules out
Astronomical numbers in Canada of Edmonton and Calgary to the Syncrude UE-1 Project in Fort McMurray.
Operations started in late fall, 2002, and peaked during August 2003 – March
2004, transporting up to 25 modules a week. The highlight was a pipe-rack
Location Ft. Mc Murray, Canada module weighing over 150 tonnes on a 12-line roadstyle, 3-File. This was
Main equipment Crawler cranes, Hydraulic cranes, and trailers
the 1st time ever such a configuration was in Alberta, and it was also the
heaviest piperack module transported from Edmonton to Fort McMurray.

Highlight cranes ranging from 65 to 230 tonnes. Mammoet applies

Work is currently in full progress on the Syncrude UE-1
project in Ft. McMurray, Canada. Mammoet has been
awarded 3 contracts: Heavy Lifts, General Cranes, and
on-site transportation. The volume of items to be handled
is astronomical.
The Heavy Lift package calls for lifting of approximately
1300 items, ranging from modules and reactors to
vessels and other equipment. When this issue went to
press, 900 items of the Heavy Lift program had been
installed already. There are 10 heavy-lift cranes deployed
on a permanent basis with assistance from 7 smaller
a warehousing system for the monitoring, loading,
offloading and (re)location for all required rigging
equipment for the cranes.
The 2nd contract is the General Cranes package, involving
more than 20 crawler cranes ranging from 100 to 300
tonnes. The 3rd contract comprises on-site transport of
the modules from storage to the crane locations. Various
trailer-units, pilot trucks and spotters are used to ensure
that the drives maneuver the trailers safely around. The
majority of all module lifts will be completed in May 2004;
the entire project will closed-out early 2005.

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Large convoy through Montreal

Location Montreal, Canada
Main equipment Trailers and TC 4000

Highlight
Mammoet successfully completed a refinery
project in Montreal. It involved the transpor-
tation and erection of several CCR modules.
Due to the large size of the modules (8 meter
wide, 10 meter high), all of the cargo was
moved in convoy in a single night in order
to minimize disruption to the public services,
since many utility wires had to be temporarily
disconnected as the cargo was moved
down the streets. After arrival at the site,
the modules were erected and stacked over
80 meter high with a Demag TC 4000 crane.

Outsized cargo in Québec

Location Québec, Canada
Main equipment PTC, SPMTs, Railcars

Highlight
Mammoet transported and erected some
fifteen items of heavy cargo at a refinery
near the St. Lawrence River in the province
Québec, Canada.
The 1st phase of the project required the
transportation of 3 large columns. These
columns, built in Malaysia, were transported
to the Port of Becancour where Mammoet
loaded them onto heavy-duty railcars for a
200 kilometer ride to the refinery. The rail-
way transport was critical considering the
columns to be 5.7 meter wide, while the
nominally allowable width for specialized
rail cargo is 4.3 meter. Upon arrival at the
refinery, the columns were transferred to
SPMTs, transported over a short distance
over public roads, and were then
offloaded by the PTC.
The 2nd phase of the project involved the
transportation of 7 large CCR modules to
the site. As these modules were too large
to be shipped by railway, they were
received from a heavy lift ship and then
transported along roads 12 kilometer to
the refinery. This was very challenging
since the SPMTs had to ascend slopes of
15% in November when snow and ice
were a certainly possible. In addition,
months of preparation were required to
organize the removal of hundreds of
overhead wires, in order to allow safe
passage of the modules, which were
approximately 10 meter high.
At the refinery, the PTC was assembled
with a 69-meter main boom and 57-meter
luffing jib. The PTC crawlers were also
used during the project to relocate the
PTC from one lifting position to another.
Most spectacular was the erection of a
70-meter long and 388-tonne weighing
column on a 56-meter radius.

Transports in Venezuela for USA refinery

Location Porto Ordaz, Venezuela
Main equipment Conventional trailers, prime mover

Highlight
A column with a diameter of 5 meter, a length of 70 meter
and a weight of 450 tonnes was manufactured in Venezuela
for a USA refinery. The stack had to be moved. By
Mammoet of course… A side-by-side 8 x 8 conventional
axle lines arrangement along with a 450 tonnes turntable
was chosen to provide stability to the convoy at prime
mover side. The rear side was equipped with 8 lines single
conventional with turntable. Transport started at the con-
structer’s main shop and progressed along a 15-kilometer
road, crossing a heavy traffic industrial area at Puerto
Ordaz. Some obstacles (traffic poles, lighting poles and
fences) were removed to allow the column to complete
turns. The journey ended with a roll-on operation onto a
barge at the riverside dock of the Orinoco River.
challenge given the fact that the conventional trailers were
not connected to each other but through the structure of
the module itself. Some stiffeners were applied to ascertain
proper rigidity and thus to avoid distortion of modules.
During transport some fences, obstacles and light poles
were removed and ground was reconditioned to match the
width of the convoy. The roll-on operation onto the barge
was special and delicate because space onboard was
almost equal to the module width. Final destination was
again for the same USA refinery.

Highlight
Four Convection Module Halves, fabricated at Puerto
Ordaz, were temporarily connected in pairs of 2 halves
in order to move in a whole pack (11 meter width x 450
tonnes) using 2x 7-spacer-4 conventional trailers in an
unusual spreader side-by-side arrangement. The road
length was about 2 kilometers. Coordination of prime
movers to exert proper pull / push proved to be a maximum

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Joint efforts in Brazil

Location Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Main equipment PTC, Manitowoc M-250

Highlight
A Gas Chemical Plant under construction at Duque de
Caxias, Rio de Janerio State, Brazil, will become opera-
tional by the end of 2004. It will yearly produce 520,000
tonnes of ethane 75,000 tonnes of propane, and 540,000
tonnes of polyethylene. The construction work involves
7,000 tonnes of steel structures and 14,000 tonnes of
equipment on the site. Mammoet was awarded the heavy
lift contract, which included lifts ranging from 100 to 470
tonnes. Mammoet Irga do Brasil was awarded the local
heavy lift contract, with lifts ranging from 20 to 100
tonnes. Mammoet deployed the largest crane operated to
date in Brazil for this project, i.e. its PTC (Platform Twin
Ring Containerized). This crane could do all the heavy lifts
from only 2 positions and was relocated fully rigged using
the its own containerized crawler system. Mammoet Irga
do Brasil deployed 2 Manitowoc M-250 cranes, one of
which was involved in the PTC assembly, tailing lifts, and
disassembly work. Irga also supplied a truck
and trailer for a maximum of 50-tonne loads, as well as
telescopic cranes with capacities between 45 and 225
tonnes. More than 100 lifts were completed successfully.
The more critical lifts involved 2 reactors of about 45
meters long and weighing some 460 tonnes, 2 towers,
85 and 95 meters tall and each weighing 465 tonnnes and
2 purge bins with a length of 40 meters and weighing 175
tonnes. In addition Mammoet lifted to a greater height, a
steel structure with a length of 50 meter.

Shanghai première
MAMMOET 
ASIA Location Shanghai, China
Main equipment CC 4800 Twin Ring LD, CC 2600

Highlight
In December Mammoet deployed the 4800 Twin Ring LD and CC 2600 for a
heavy lift contract at a refinery in Shanghai. The offloading of the cranes from
the ship was completed in 1 night followed by clearing through customs the
next day. Assembling started almost straight away. For the main contract,
Mammoet lifted 2 reactors weighing 750 tonnes and 4 columns ranging from
250 to 500 tonnes. After the main contract the Twin Ring was converted into
a standard CC 4800 and continued to work for various other mechanical
installation contractors lifting another 12 units ranging from 70 to 150 tonnes.
At all times Mammoet could reschedule the lifting period, proposals and
changes in the engineering to comply with clients requirements at the jobsite
itself. This was mainly possible due to our vast site experience in projecting
various changes in the lifting schedules and planning issues.

Exchangers exchanged!
Location Brunei, Malaysia
Main equipment Cometto trailers, prime mover, turntables, CC 1800

Highlight
For a plant in Brunei, Malaysia, Mammoet won a contact for the
exchange of 4 cryogenic heat exchangers. The scope of work
included the delivery of the new heat exchangers in Muar, a
little town near the capital of Brunei, onto a flat top barge, sail
it to Kuala Belait and subsequently transport it over 32 km
to the plant in Lumut and install the equipment there.

Before the barge set sail to Brunei, the grillage and sea fasten-
ing (prepared in Malaysia) was installed. Upon arrival, the 1st
exchanger was transported to site on 2x 10-axle line Cometto
trailers. The manufacturer of the exchanger did a perfect job on
the design of the saddles and especially the lashing points for transport. Mammoet could only trans-
port at midnight and driving then 32 km on a dark road is a tedious operation. Upon arrival of the
2nd exchanger the following day, the turn tables were removed and a straight 20-liner was built in
order to clear the pipe racks. While the transport was moving on the crane team was busy with the
assembly of the CC 1800. The new exchanger had to be installed next to the existing exchanger that
was still operating in the live plant. Assembly of a crane in a live plant is always challenging but it
was done without any problems. The new exchanger was installed safely and on time. After that,
Mammoet removed the existing exchanger as well with a specially designed lifting frame. Upon
completion of the 1st set, Mammoet repeated the operation 3 more times.

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Kuwaiti Records
MAMMOET 
MIDDLE EAST
Location Mina Abdulla, Kuwait
Main equipment MSG 50,CC 2800, tailing frame, SPMTs

Highlight
This contract involved the transport of 2 reactors, each
weighing 1150 tonnes, from the port and their delivery
in an upright position at the refinery. For the transport
Mammoet had 48-axles of SPMT available while an
MSG 50 and a large 2000-tonne tailing-frame were used
for the lifts.
The reactors arrived at the port by a heavy lift vessel.
The reactor was loaded onto the 24 axle lines SPMT,
ready for the 16-kilometer journey to the refinery. After
passage of a number of tight sections along the route,
Mammoet positioned the reactor on the stowage stops
already put in place at the lay-down area. Early next
morning the crew returned to the port to collect the 2nd
reactor.
The MSG 50 was mobilized from the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia. Before entering the plant we had already erected
the boom and the back masts on stops and used a
6-axle line and a double 12-axle line SPMT to transport
the complete components to the ring. Then cranes were
used for the assembly (the back masts) – and for the
fitting of the entire structure to the remainder of the
MSG (the boom). Using this erection method we had the
MSG ready for the lifts in the record time of just 14 days.
The 2nd reactor was the 1st to be lifted into position.
The height of the SPMTs was very important since the
tailing frame subsequently had to be fitted to the skirt,
and that wouldn’t have been possible if the reactor had
positioned too high or too low. On the evening of the same
day the reactor was installed safely on its foundations.
The next morning work started on the other reactor, one
hundred meters further along in the plant. The 12 days
between placing the 1st reactor on its foundations and
lifting the 2nd reactor into position is an absolute
record! An amazing performance of Mammoet staff from
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Pakistan and other
countries.

Fat boys in Saudi Arabia MAMMOET

ASIA

Location
Main equipment
Jubail, Saudi Arabia
MSG 50, CC 2800, 48 axle lines SPMT
Old acquaintances in India
Location Jamnagar, India
Main equipment CC 4800, LR 1450,
CC 1800, S 5500 and a
Highlight
CC 2000
The MSG 50 and the
CC 2800 were nomi-
nated to execute the Highlight
erection and installa- For a 24 hours shutdown at a refinery in India,
tion of no less than Mammoet had to supply 5 big crawler cranes.
37 items for a refinery Operations included the exchange of the Top
located at Jubail, Dome of a Crude column by the CC 4800.
Saudi Arabia. The key The refinery was a familiar place to be since
lifts of the project were Mammoet installed here various heavy items
2 reactors weighing with the Platform Twin Ring HD a couple of years
853 tonnes each, and ago. Like the events in the past the customer
a wash tower of 1200 tonnes. While the MSG 50 was set up in temperatures was again very satisfied with Mammoets
above 50 degrees Celsius, with a high degree of humidity, a heavy lift ship performance and especially appreciated the
unloaded 8 items, including the 2 reactors, at Jubail Industrial Port. The reactors skills of our operators.
were transported on 3 x 18 axle lines SPMT to the site, over a distance of 18
kilometers, after which the MSG assisted by the CC 2800 as tail crane, success-
fully installed both items. The wash tower was successfully loaded at Belleli Steel
Factory in Jubail and was transported over a distance of 5 kilometers to the site.
In the meantime the MSG 50 had been relocated to the next position to lift the
wash tower onto its foundation.

Moving 250,000 tonnes in Australia

MAMMOET 
AUSTRALIA Location Brisbane/Gladstone Queensland, Australia
Main equipment SPMTs

Highlight 380 tonnes there were a number of challenges with

For the construction of a Refinery at Gladstone in
North Queensland, Australia, a number of modules
needed to be constructed in a purpose built fabri-
cation facility in Brisbane. Upon completion, the
modules were “loaded out” onto a barge and then
towed approximately 350 nautical miles for load-in
at a temporary offloading facility in Gladstone.
Mammoet was contracted for a period of 12 months
for the provision and operation of 20 axle lines
SPMT at each end of the project, to ensure the
smooth operation of the load-out/load-in phases
as well as the transportation of the modules from
the lay down yard at the offloading facility
Gladstone, to the project site, a distance of
approx. 5 km. While the heaviest loads were about
other modules that were awkward to transport,
due to their unconventional shapes and sizes.
Mammoet had less than 6 weeks from notification
of award to mobilize and be ready on site. This
included application and approval for equipment,
import and operational permits, shipping, importa-
tion and custom clearances, police and road
authority permits, transport studies as well as the
challenge of locating suitable operators to execute
the project. A total of 265 modules have been
safely moved by Mammoet amounting to 250,000
freight tonne of project cargo which was all
achieved timely and without any accident.

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Civil
Moving the heaviest concrete building ever
MAMMOET
EUROPE
 Location Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Main equipment SPMTs, steel plates, hydraulic cranes

Highlight line, even along an 1% slope that was to

A complete waste processing plant was
transported to a new location over
1 kilometer in just 1 day. The 6,900
tonnes concrete plant was one of the
heaviest buildings ever moved on
wheels. Measuring 50 x 32 x 20 meter
it had to be moved to clear space for a
low emission grade waste incineration
installation. Groundwork preparations
were completed in an earlier stage, so
that 278 axle lines of SPMT could be
positioned in 8 lines under the object.
The SPMTs were the best option for this
complicated transport job. Its hydraulic
system will keep the loading surface
under the stiff concrete structure in one
be taken when leaving the construction
pit. The building was strengthened with
a 60 tonnes support frame. This spec-
tacular movement was executed in a
weekend as to minimize traffic disruption
on several roads and a railway. The
route was compacted and covered with
30,000 m2 of steel plates, while water
and sewage pipelines were covered with
ramps to offset the ground pressure.
This carefully prepared transport saved
time and money, avoiding an expensive
demolishing and new building procedure.
Another advantage was that the waste
processing plant could be put into
operation again shortly afterwards.

‘Aurora’ tunnel boring machine starts trip to China

Location Rijnwoude, Netherlands
Main equipment various cranes, trailers, barges

Highlight is close to an important local train link and highways.

For environmental reasons, a section of the new
Dutch infrastructure for high speed trains to Belgium
and onwards to France, runs through kilometers long
tunnel, thus saving the precious Green Heart of
Holland. Upon finishing the digging work, the boring
machine ‘Aurora’ was sold to a Chinese operator for
a job in Shanghai. The 1st leg of this transport was to
get the machine in pieces to a terminal in the port of
Rotterdam, ready for overseas transport. The ‘Aurora’
is the biggest tunnel boring machine in the world with
a total mass of over 5,000 tonnes.
Mammoet won the contract for taking apart the
machine and transport all items to its Heavy Lift
Terminal at its premises in Schiedam. There were,
however, severe constraints. The end of the tunnel
Traffic disruption should be kept to a minimum by
working at night. The machine came apart in more
than 300 pieces. Most of them were small enough to
allow for normal road transport. But a little more than
50 items had to be moved from the location to barges
in the nearby river Old Rhine. At the end of a Saturday
afternoon, a main road was closed and Mammoet
immediately started to remove power lines, poles and
traffic signs, while Dutch Railways secured the railroad
and removed the power lines. The largest piece was
14 x 8 x 6 meter and required 21 lines of conventional
trailer, as its weight was 210 tonnes. Loading onto the Sunday with smaller pieces in between. Early on
barges was done with 500 and 600 tonnes hydraulic Monday morning, the first trains ran on time…
cranes, assisted by a floating crane of BTS – the new Tight schedules, no traffic distortion and tailor-made
member of the Mammoet family – which also supplied solutions that work as intended. No wonder the
the barges. A slightly heavier piece was handled on customers’ smile was big!

Heavy transport on a high level

Location Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Main equipment SPMTs, 8x 600-ton skid units

Highlight
The new Unilever head office, called “De Brug” (the bridge) was prefabricated at a
site 200 meter from the present factory. The complete office building was standing
on steel legs and consisted of 4 floors, each measuring 33 x 130 meter.
The elements were assembled together at a height of 25 meter, on a temporary
construction. Mammoet was to move this huge 2400 tonnes weighing steel
skeleton over a distance of 200 meter and to position it on top of the existing
factory and “Blue Band House”.

The first 100 meter were driven with 152 axle lines SPMT with a total load capacity
of 4560 tonnes. Steel plates were applied as foundation for the SPMTs which
had to make a large S-turn during the 1st phase of the transport operation, in
order to arrive straight in front of the factory. There was no space on the inland
side for the 2nd leg to go. The solution was to join the SPMTs with Mammoets
skidding system comprising of 8x 600-tonnes skid units, positioned on a 16-meter
skidding track. The skidding system took over the weight of the SPMT units on
the inland side of the steel construction. Advantages of the solution were that the
production could be continued normally while the distribution was not hampered
by building activities. Extensive mechanisation of the work and a well-scheduled
process reduced the building costs, compared to traditional building methods.

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Unique service for French bridge

Location Nonant-le-Pin, France
Main equipment SPMTs

Highlight be seen in the dike. The dike was partially

Imagine a new highway under construction.
Along the track you’ll find 104 bridges at the
crossroads. One of them is a railway bridge,
manufactured along the railway tracks. The
challenge: put the 45 meter long bridge in place
in a minimum of time as to limit disruption of
rail traffic. Mammoet Fostrans succesfully bid
to this job. Here is how Mammoet stood up to
its promise and applied a solution never seen
before in France.
On a Saturday at 17.00 hrs, the last train
passed the old tracks. The customers sub-
contractors immediately disassembled the
tracks section on the dike and started to dig.
Within hours, the contours of the bridge could
removed to ground level where the highway
was to be constructed. Then, on Sunday after-
noon, Mammoet moved its 6x 16 lines SPMT
underneath the supporting concrete girders
that were specially designed for the transport.
The hydraulic jacks lifted the bridge just 20
centimeters, enough for the ride. With laser
equipment, it was found that the deformation
of the bridge structure with 7 millimeters
stayed well within the 15 mm limits. Slowly
the SPMTs moved and ‘inserted’ the bridge
exactly into the hole in the dike. Upon arrival,
the supporting girders were taken off and
were added to the bridge foundation for extra
stability. On Monday at 15.00 hrs the first train
crossed the bridge. Right on time!

Bridging the route du Soleil

Location Luxembourg city, Luxembourg
Main equipment Skid shoes, SPMTs

Highlight these trailers bridged the difference in height

Mammoet was awarded the 1st transport
contract for the construction of a bridge over
the E25 motorway better known as the “route
du Soleil”. The bridge was to replace an old
one, allowing the motorway to be expanded
from a dual 2-lanes to a dual 3-lanes layout. The
1686-tonnes bridge was constructed at the
southern bridgehead. It was decided to skid the
bridge into position using 8x 600-tonne skid
shoes, with 2 skid shoes for each support
point. SPMTs were applied to create a moving
48-line support point with 3 laterally linked
16-line SPMTs. Two steel supports fitted to
between the motorway and the bridgeheads.
Four 16-meter ramps placed on the steel sup-
ports made it possible to skid the bridge onto
the trailer from the bridgehead. The problem
was that the bridgeheads were not directly
opposite one another. Thus the trailers not only
had to move forward but also needed to move
slightly sideways at the same time! slipways on the 16-metre ramps were shifted
to a location such that the bridge could be
The transport from the Southern to the Northern positioned well within the specified tolerances.
bridgehead was a combined skidding/moving After the bridge was fitted in its definitive
operation that had to be supervised very position the customer was the first to drive
closely. On arrival at the opposite side the over the new bridge.

Heavy lifting at high level

Location Dusseldorf, Germany
Main equipment Lifting towers, strandjacks, skidding system, crawler cranes, SPMTs

Highlight 100 meter. Lifting and skidding operations were managed

Two main truss bridges with a length of 180 meter each
were lifted and positioned at the new “Rhein-Arena” stadium
in Germany. The roof structures were manufactured in
sections and the girders were assembled outside the
stadium at ground level. Mammoet lifted the giant beams
with 2x 60-meter high lifting towers with 4x 600-tonnes
lifting units on top.
Lifted to a height of 50 meter, the truss bridges were
skidded on skidding tracks into the stadium, after which
they were lowered on concrete supporting points. The 1st
section was skidded over 200 meter, the 2nd one over a
from a central operation room, monitoring vertical and hori-
zontal deflections. Next was the installation of 2x 110-
meter long and 395 tonnes cross sections connecting the
truss bridges. Finally, 2 giant slidable roofs slabs were put
into place. The complete roof structure measures
235 x 201 meter with a free opening of 110 x 70 meter.
The multi-purpose stadium is part of the Düsseldorf
exhibition center and can accommodate 51.000 people.
With the “Rhein-Arena” stadium, Germany has a strong
ace for acquiring the Summer Olympics in 2012.

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Gold in Athens
Location Athens, Greece
Main equipment CC 2800

Highlight
The Karaiskaki stadium is to be the jewel of the
Greek stadiums for the Olympic games in 2004.
The stadium comprises a mixed structure of
steel and prefabricated concrete. It will accom-
modate 34,000 people and includes 6 roof vip
lounges. Most amazing of the stadium is not the work at ground level was speeded up and
construction but the time schedule. culminated in the assembly of much bigger and
Construction started just in June 2003 with the heavier steel constructions than anticipated
demolishing of the old stadium. The stadium before. But Mammoets experience and available
must be ready in June 2004. Construction work equipment allowed to lift and position these big-
on the steel parts started in November 2003 and ger items without a glitch. A golden performance,
should be completed by the end of March 2004. said the customer. Let the games begin!
In order to meet this very challenging schedule,


MAMMOET
AMERICAS
Lewis and Clark Bridge revised
Location Longview, Washington
Main equipment SPMTs, lifting frame and winches

Highlight The actual lifting was done with pneumatic

Many bridges in the US were built in the 50’s and
now need replacement or maintenance. At the
Washington-Oregon Border 103 bridge sections,
varying from 85 to 180 tonnes, in the Lewis and
Clark Bridge must be replaced. The bridge spans
the Columbia river. Mammoets’ innovation power
came to the rescue to develop a replacement
method with minimal disruption of traffic. Using
SPMTs and a truss-lifting frame, Mammoet could
move onto the bridge, lift the old deck section
and insert the new section in the same process.
winches mounted on the top of the truss frame.
Because of various dimensions of the sections,
the winches had to remain “unfixed” to the truss
frame as to easily relocate the winches such they
would coincide with the lift points on the sections.
The window of work was 9:30 pm to 5:00 am,
5 nights a week with the actual bridge closing for
approximately 8 hours. The replacement method
can be used elsewhere for similar applications
and scaled to the weights and dimensions of the
deck sections.

Red alert triggers immediate response

Location Livingston, Texas , USA
Main equipment CC 2800, backhoes, dozers, flexifloats

Highlight
Imagine a railway bridge in a main line to collapse!
Immediate help is needed. Mammoet received
a phone call from a customer who witnessed
the collapse. At that time most of Mammoets’
equipment was deployed elsewhere. But within
24 hours, Mammoet had a CC 2800, 2 backhoes,
2 dozers, over 400 mats, 8 flexifloats and over
40 men working around the clock on the site of
the catastrophe. Weather conditions were poor
and a there was a very strong river current.
A new bridge, fabricated for another bridge project,
was shipped in by rail and Mammoet assembled
the sections. In the meantime, the old bridge was
being set with explosive charges for demolishing.
Because there was no suitable access to the site
for heavy equipment, nor suitable ground to
position the CC 2800, the soft existing river topsoil
was replaced by quarried limestone. The wooden
mats were added as an overlay to the limestone
road which served as a crane path. The unstable
soil also required to use steel mats under the
already assembled CC 2800. After the old bridge
was blown up, the CC 2800 lifted the remainings
out of the river. Charges were set in the upper
part of the old foundation in order to remove the
11-meter top. When the new foundations were
ready, Mammoet moved and installed the new
bridge in just 2 days. The following day trains were
crossing the river again. This unscheduled bridge
change out was completed in a record time of
11 days without one safety issue.

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A 200 tonnes tunnel boring machine

Location Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Main equipment SPMTs

Highlight further expansion to the south of Edmonton.

Mammoet won a contract to move a Tunnel
Boring Machine at the University Light Rail Transit
(LRT) Station. However, the schedule was tight
and operations should be completed during off
peak hours to ensure no major disruptions to
traffic at this one of the most busiest terminals
in the city. The LRT extension aims at bringing
the existing transit system from below the
University campus above the ground to allow
The 1st tunnel was ready and the 2nd was now
to follow. Mammoet had to transport 2 pieces
of the boring machine from the existing terminal
below the ground, to the approach out of the
ground. The largest piece was 180 tonnes.
Mammoet applied 2x 10 lines SPMTs. Much of
the under ground ducting for utility lines did not
have the required strength to support the trailer
loads. A matter of carefully driving!

Narrow route at Marinette

Location Marinette, Wisconsin, USA
Main equipment SPMTs, 600 tonne jacks

Highlight
At Marinette Mammoet moved 3
ferries each weighing 2,600 tonnes
from the manufacturing facility to
the nearby launch way. The ferries
first needed to be lifted and relieved
from the stands as to move the
SPMTs underneath. After the stands
were cut and removed, a 600
tonnes capacity jack, placed on a
1.2 meter high stand was installed
under the ferry. It lifted 10 times to
allow for all SPMTs to be positioned
properly. The facility was to narrow
for the SPMTs to drive out. The
solution was to use a 12-axle line
and a 10-axle line SPMT with only
1 powerpack on the 10-axle line.
This made the SPMTs to achieve
the same length, thus allowing to
drive out with only 15-centimeter
clearance. All ferries were transported
over 274 meter to the launch way and
jacked up to 3.3-meter as required.

Self-propelled portal cranes in South Africa

Location Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Main equipment Mobile portals

Highlight
Two giant breakwaters are constructed for a
new harbour, called Coega. Six millions tonnes
of rocks have to be dumped into the water to
construct the 2,5 km Eastern Breakwater and
the 1,2 km Western Breakwater. Moreover
26,000 “Dollossen” - with the shape of a giant
concrete crow’s-foot with a weight of 30 tonnes
- have to be positioned as well.

The immediate problem was the limited working

space at the dike. There was no room to use a
crane because the trucks with the rocks then
could not pass. The solution: mobile portals!
The trucks can drive under the portals to
deliver their cargo. Mammoet designed 3
self-propelled portals with 2x2 crawler sets
and power packs. Three Manitowoc 4100W
Ring cranes, modified to Heavy Duty Cycle
Configuration, were mounted on top of these
7-meter high portals. The crawlers can cope
with the gentle bend in the dike and if needed
the cranes can be driven off in case of a gale.
All construction material has to be positioned
very precisely and this was aided by a GPS
installed in the cabs of the cranes. The cranes
will operate 24 hours a day, 6 days a week,
for 2 years.

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Offshore
MAMMOET
EUROPE


Handling a jacket
Location Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Main equipment LR 1750, SPMTs, ballasting system

Highlight
Recently, Mammoet executed a load-
out of a 1,628 tonnes jacket at the
yard of Heerema Group, Vlissingen.
This spectacular transport required 64
axle lines SPMTs. Before the actual
operation started, Mammoet measured
Limited space at Stord the exact weight and the center of
gravity of the jacket. This was done
with the computerized weighing
Location Stord, Norway
system. A special feature of this
Main equipment SPMTs, smart jack system, ballasting system
project is that the four-legged jacket
had to be handled in one piece and
it should be placed in an upright
position before the SPMTs would
make their move. This lifting was
orchestrated by Mammoets’ LR 1750
crane with 85 meter main boom,
plus 4 winches, with assistance of
4 smaller cranes of Heerema.
The jacket is part of the Sable
Offshore Energy Project (SOEP),
located 125 miles offshore Nova
Scotia in water up to 80 meters deep.
Production began late 1999. The
Sable Tier 2 project features the
addition of as many as 3 satellite
platforms, interconnecting pipelines
and offshore compression. SOEP
encompasses one of the largest
known natural gas deposits remaining
to be developed in North America.
It comprises 6 major natural gas
fields at 10 to 40 kilometers north off
the edge of the Scotian Shelf.

Tight schedule at Haugesund

Location Haugesund, Norway
Main equipment SPMTs, ballasting and weighing system

Highlight
A Riser Module was manufactured in Spain. The 4,500 tonnes
structure needed to be loaded in in Norway, prior to the assembly Highlight
with the complete deck. Upon arrival of the vessel, Mammoet Two modules of 4,000 and 800 tonnes of a pre-
first lifted the Module with 192 lines of SPMT. These SPMTs were compression unit had to be loaded on 2 different
fitted with 2.5 meter high stoppings, which was necessary for the barges. Their final destination is a platform that was also
later mating to the 2nd structure. It proved to be challenging to handled by Mammoet, back in ’98. The largest module
drive 400 meters as clearances were at minimum at the yard. posed some difficult problems. It had to be moved side-
After final positioning of the deck, the Riser Module was raised ways first, then turned 90 degrees and finally moved
2.5 meter with our computerized “smart jack” system. The total sideways again to line up with the ramp of the barge.
mass of the combined structure will be too much for driving. Of course, the versatility of the SPMTs contributed
So a ballasted barge will then move into the submersed dock greatly to this performance. But the scheduling wasn’t
and lift the structure when water is pumped out. easy either. The total available time window was just
8 days for bringing in the equipment, set-up, positioning,
weighing, ballasting set-up, operations, demobilising

MAMMOET
ASIA
 the equipment and departure.

A blessed job!
Location Hazia,India
Main equipment SPMTs, Goldhofers and pump units

Highlight
Mammoet Dubai completed the 1st SPMT
load-out in India. The work was carried out
at an offshore-construction factory in Hazia,
a couple of hundred kilometers north of
Bombay. The transport involved 5 modules,
up to 2,100 tonnes, together with 2 offshore
decks also of 2,100 tonnes. The contract
called for the load-outs, the ballasting with
600-tonnes submersible pumps, the mooring,
and the engineering. The equipment used:
54-axle SPMTs, supplemented by local
18-axle line Goldhofers and 16x 600-tonnes
submersible pump units. Two heavy-duty
prime movers were also used for the
mooring job.
The modules had been constructed in the
factory in a location such that Mammoet
had to ‘fight our way out’ of the corner
to reach the pontoon. No easy with a
combination of SPMT and conventional
trailers. The 2 offshore decks were driven
onto the pontoon from the side – which
posed yet another challenge for the crew.
Every transport began with a Pooja, an old
Hindustan ritual to gain the favour of the
gods. Mammoet was pleased to take part
in these Poojas – with the idea that it
certainly wouldn’t do any harm!

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A reverse lifting job in the Bass Strait Sea

Location Bass Strait Sea, Australia
Main equipment Strandjacks

Highlight
For the Yolla gas field, located 147 kilometers
off the coast of Kilcunda, in the 80-meter
deep waters of the “Bass Strait”, Mammoet
installed an offshore deck with a length and
width of 50 meter, a height of 20 meter, and
weight of 4,000 tonnes, together with a jacket
of 110 meter high and an additional weight of
4,000 tonnes. The entire offshore structure
was constructed in Batam, Indonesia.

Before the ultimate load-out and installation

at sea, various tests were executed. A test rig
was constructed to verify the strandjack con-
figuration and to simulate the sea conditions.
The deck and the jacket were loaded out and floor, 6 meters down into the mud.
towed to the Bass Strait. The combination Subsequently the deck was hoovered over the
was completely floating. The jacket protrudes jacket and secured into position, an elevantion


through the deck. So the 1st action was to of 20 meters. This was all achieved with 36
lower the jacket until it was secure on the sea strandjacks.
MAMMOET
AMERICAS
Load-outs for the
Holstein Drill Structure
Location Sabine Pass, Texas (USA)
Meeting the schedule during Carnaval
Main equipment SPMTs, tower system
Location Illha da Conceição, Brazil
Main equipment LR 1400/2

Highlight
Mammoet also achieved load-outs related to
the Holstein Drill Structure. This comprises a
DSM-structure with 100 lines of SPMTs under-
neath for a side ways transfer from a dock wise
vessel onto a floating dry dock. Then Mammoet
did the load-out from a local manufacturer of
the 1,200 tonnes DES module, which required
48 lines of SPMTs. This load-out was onto a
floating barge that sailed to the same dry dock
as mentioned before. In addition, Mammoet
completed the load-in to this dry dock.
Furthermore, Mammoet took an assembly job.
The Heavy Duty Lift System around the DES
structure was put together and slid into the
structure, marking another 1,200 tonnes moved
by Mammoet.
Highlight
The project location is an offshore site usually
rented by assembly companies. Just now, Maua
Jurong assembles the P-50 here, an FPSO
made for Petrobras which will be completed
by end of August. Mammoets’ LR 1400/2 was
mobilized to support the assembly. This crane
was prepared during carnaval in Rio, an
almost impossible task since nobody likes to
work in Rio then. Nevertheless, Mammoet
managed to be standby on-time. The heaviest
equipment to be lifted was a part of a Process
Module P-07, weighing 148 tonnes. The total
module would later become installed on top of
the hull of the FPSO. Subsequently Mammoet
lifted a Dearator tower of 45 tonnes on Process
module P-07, as well as 2 towers of Chemical
Injection (60 and 40 tonnes) on Process
module P-06 and a Dearator Tower of 30
tonnes on the same process module.

Load-outs for the Holstein Production Facility

Location Amelia, Lousiana (USA)
Main equipment SPMTs, conventional trailers

72 lines of conventional trailers with

Highlight
The Holstein project aims to install
an offshore platform for operations
in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mammoet USA has been awarded a
set of contracts for the load-outs of
3 modules. The North Module of
about 8,000 tonnes was moved with
power packs, and 224 lines of
SPMTs. It marks the largest module
load-out in the US on rubber tyres.
The 2nd item is de Module Support
Frame (MSF), weighing over 4,300
tonnes. It is to be installed on top
of the Spar and will support the
North and South Modules. This MSF
required again 72 lines of conven-
tional trailers with power packs, with
the addition of 100 lines of SPMTs.
The 3rd module is the South Module
of 4,900 tonnes and this structure
was transported with the 72 lines
of conventional trailers as above,
plus 120 lines of SPMTs. Typical
challenges that come with such
load-outs are the proper ballasting
of the barges and the computer-
assisted control of the trailers.
A dedicated crew performed all
3 load-outs in just 1 week!

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Power

MAMMOET
EUROPE
Energizing an Energy Plant
Location Rijnmond, Netherlands
Main equipment strandjacks, turntable

Highlight Recently, Mammoet was requested to install

Mammoet is renowned for its worldwide trans-
port and lifting services for the power industry.
Mega Watt Whether it concerns maintenance and renewal
or the establishment of new plants, Mammoet
has dedicated solutions to install any trans-
Location Spalding, England / Altamira, Mexico former, heat exchanger, turbine or other heavy
Main equipment Conventional trailers, prime movers, PC 4200
items in power stations. The may be nuclear
facilities, or fossil fuel installations. Temporary
storage facilities at the Heavy Lift Terminal
of Mammoet in Schiedam often ease the
complicated logistics.
a steam turbine generator of 345 tonnes at
7 meters high on its foundations for a power
plant – Rijnmond Energy Center – in West-
Holland. Operations required a 90 degrees
turn while the cargo was off the ground. To
do this, Mammoet combined strand jack
equipment with a turntable, a set-up that
has proven to work out all right in a similar
project last year.

Highlight
For the construction of a new 800-MW power
plant in Spalding (England), Mammoet trans-
ported 4 transformers that were
manufactured in Mexico. They were received
by Mammoet in the harbour of Altamira,
loaded onto a heavy lift ship and transported
to Mammoets’ Heavy Lift Terminal in
Schiedam, The Netherlands. The reason for
the stop in Schiedam was that the heavy lift
ship could not reach the harbour of Sutton
Bridge, on the east coast of England. The
transformers had therefore to be transferred
to a smaller ship that could cover the last
stretch to Sutton Bridge. There the PC 4200
crane was standby to unload the transformers
and put them onto an 18- axle line Scheuerle
conventional trailer, in combination with a
heavy-duty prime mover. The trip was 30
miles long, after which jacking specialists
installed the transformers on location.
Besides the 4 transformers, 42 parts of a
steam boiler – manufactured in Portugal –
were also transported to England. The parts
varied in weight from 75 to 175 tonnes and
were unloaded with a small Heavy Lift ship in
the harbour for temporary storage. In
the meantime, a truck trailer combination
shuttled back and forth to Spalding via local
roads to deliver the parts. All transportation
was done on schedule.
MAMMOET 
AMERICAS
A long journey in Venezuela
Location Venezuela
Main equipment Prime movers, conventional trailers, lifting portals
Highlight
The project called for moving 6 “Three-Phase
Separators” (5 m diameter, 28 meter long and
120 tonnes) along 800 km road. This meant a
long journey crossing several bridges and over-
head obstacles. This became first succesful
attempt to move such kind of vessels by
road, in Venezuela, involving the Mammoet
Transport Frame.

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Heavy Lifting at Brighton Beach

Location Ontario, Canada
Main equipment Strandjacks, gantry crane, selfproppelled trailers

Highlight
Mammoet recently completed a long-running
power project in Ontario. The last job – installing a
steam turbine generator – was carried out with 4x
100-tonnes strandjacks, mounted on a 400-tonnes
gantry. The lifting work had to be carried out in a
very restricted area with limited space. As there
was no access to drive the load underneath the
tower along its length, the generator was brought
up sideways, on a double trailer combination. After
lifting the load about 10 meter, the units were
brought above the foundation and put in position
with the 400-tonnes hydraulic gantry crane. The
turbine and generator weighed 130 and 255 tonnes
respectively.

High accuracy work

Location Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Main equipment Strandjacks, skidding system, Lift-N-Lock system

Vertical challenge
Location Ste Timothé, Canada.
Main equipment Lifting tower, skidding system, and conventional trailer

Highlight
Mammoet Québec carried out an interesting
job for a power plant in Ste Timothé, near
Montreal, in Canada. The work covered the
installation of a relatively small generator rotor
of about 80 tonnes. So what was interesting?
The rotor had to be placed in a vertically
positioned generator, while most generators
are positioned horizontally. Contributing to the
interest was that the item had to be placed
in a small building without enough room for
a normal crane.
Mammoet mobilized a 400-tonnes jack tower
mounted on hydraulically powered wheels.
This created a temporary bridge crane. After
the transport of the rotor to the construction
site with a 9-axle Scheuerle Intercombi trailer,
the rotor was put into the building, positioned
under the tower and lifted with a 100-tonnes
strandjack. The tailing was also done via the
tower with the strandjack on a skidding system.
The customer congratulated the Mammoet
team and said the job was executed in an
excellent way. “It was a great pleasure to
work with Mammoet.”
Highlight
This project featured the installation of a
262-tonnes generator at a power plant, west
of Edmonton, in Alberta, Canada. During the
1st stage, the generator was lifted with a
gantry system that was positioned on 4 lifting
towers, using 4x 180-tonnes strandjacks.
The generator passed the supporting beams
of the skidding system, put in position earlier,
with only a few centimeters to spare. The 2nd
stage consisted of skidding the generator
into the building over a distance of 20 meters.
The supporting beams and skid rails were
placed under the generator. Again using the
strandjacks, the generator was placed on this
skid system. Once on the rails, the generator
was then skidded into the building on the
Hydra skid system. Finally, the Lift-N-Lock
system was linked to the generator and
moved 2 meters in respect of the original
skid direction. For this linking operation, all
the blocks and skid rails first had to be
removed. After that, the generator could be
lowered onto the concrete foundation and was
secured to its anchoring bolts.
The job was completed in 3 days.

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Tailor-made support
Location Seneca, USA
Main equipment Gantry lifting system, special developed lifting and
sliding devices, SPMTs

Highlight
Two old 520-tonnes generators were to be replaced by
2x 425-tonnes new ones. The reactor head and the
coolant pump were also to be replaced. The generators
and the reactor head were removed from the building
through a purpose built construction opening while the
coolant pump went through an existing opening.
A Temporary Lifting Device (TLD), a Hatch Transfer
System (HTS) and an Outside Lift System (OLS) were
tailor-made for this job. Mammoet lifted the reactor
head using a lifting cradle, a containerized downloader,
the OLS and the HTS. The coolant pump was replaced
using a 2nd HTS. Mammoet also applied 2x 16-line
SPMTs for the transport of the generators. During the
lifting period, a crew of 55 Mammoet specialists was
working at the project in day and night shifts.

Setting a record in Mexico

Location Detroit Michigan, USA / Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Main equipment Railcars, jacking system, SPMTs

Logistical challenge
Location Pasco, Washington and Houston, USA / La Guaira, Venezuela
Main equipment Barges, hydraulic trailers, gantry
Highlight
More than 8000 tonnes of equipment from a power plant
needed relocation to La Guaira, Venezuela. The opera-
tions involved transports from Pasco, Washington and
Houston, and included several heavy lifts. The allowable
timeframe ran from mid October to mid December. This
was rather short for preparation and execution, in combi-
Highlight
Mammoet USA, together with Mammoet Mexico, transported a 440-
tonnes transformer (676 tonnes including the railcar) from Monroe,
Michigan to Mexico City, DF, in record time! From Monroe, the unit
was taken over a distance of 869 km by rail to Mt Vernon, IN. Here,
the cargo was put on a barge to be towed 1,882 km further to the
Port of Brownsville, TX. This was a journey of 9 days. In the Port
of Brownsville, the transformer was offloaded again by means of
Mammoets’ jacking system, and put onto 2 X 18 lines of SPMT.
The ride was some 11 miles long to the other side of Brownsville.
nation with the various modes of transportation, i.e. rail There, the transformer was reloaded onto a railcar for the last stretch,
from Pasco to Houston, barge, hydraulic trailers, gantry 1,529 km to the final location in Mexico City. A true intermodal project
and ocean shipment from Houston to La Guaira. It that applied different transport methods. In Mexico the transport was
resulted in a big logistical challenge for Mammoet USA. the heaviest move ever in Mexican rail history!
Weather, holidays, logistical challenges, all were to be
overcome to have the cargo delivered on time.
While Mammoet USA was transporting the cargo through
the US, Mammoet Venezuela prepared the receipt and
onwards transportation from the port to the final unload-
ing site, which required a few ro-ro operations. Several
heavy transformers, generators and turbines had to be
stored in a temporary place. Mammoet Venezuela
assembled a Gantry Crane to receive and accommodate
these pieces. This solution saved space, time and work.

Lift N’ Lock

MAMMOET
MIDDLE EAST Location Ras Laffan - Qatar
Main equipment 18 axlelines Cometto + Lift N’ Lock Mega-Lift system

Highlight
Mammoet was awarded the transport and instal-
lation of all heavy equipment ranging from 110 to
350 tonnes for the Ras Laffan project. This came
after a recent successful completion of the Barqa
Desalination Project in Oman for the same client.
The heavy equipment was received at Ras Laffan
port directly onto Cometto trailers and transported
to the job site. The installation of most of these
items (turbines; generators, etc.) was done using
Mammoets’ 450 tonnes lift capacity “Lift N’ Lock
Mega-Lift system”. Special care had to be taken
to see that there was no interference to the other
contractor’s works.
The equipment had to be temporarily off-loaded to
change their orientation on the trailer (90 degrees)
so that the trailer could then drive between the
columns of the steel structure and between the
legs of our lift system. Once the lift system was
installed and ready, the equipment installation
went with amazing speed. It greatly enhanced
the client’s appreciation since the items were
finally onto their foundations much in advance
as planned.
The other items, 350 tonnes generators and
200 tonnes transformers, were installed with the
jacking and skidding system using climbing jacks,
and skid beams with hydraulic push/pull units.

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Jan van Seumeren jr,
Managing Director EMD.
EMD
“Optimizing equipment for maximum utilization”
Close ties between the ‘Equipment
Management Department’ (EMD)
and ‘Engineering’ are a key con-
tributing factor to Mammoets’
capability to develop new equip-
ment and to find, develop and test
tailor-made solutions for any lifting
or transport job. Jan van Seumeren
jr is in chief of the EMD operations.
He explains the way of working
and the special brand of people
that is needed to do ‘sometimes
impossible jobs’.
What triggers new developments?
“To take it in a nutshell: the require-
ments of our customers always
come first. By observing trends and
analyzing the needs, we discover
areas where we can contribute best.
Let me explain how it works. As said,
the customers’ challenge comes first.
Then, it is up to our Engineering
Department to generate clever ideas
and select a design for the solution.
Subsequently, the execution of the
design is the responsibility of EMD.
In doing so we interact with
Engineering as to optimize equip-
ment for maximum utilization.”
Are there recent examples of
EMD achievements?
“The famous CC 4800 has been
upgraded to RK 8500 for better
performance and more capacity,
as to serve clients needs for high-end
cranes. We not only supervised the
re-construction but also performed
extensive testing. The upgraded
crane, also called RK 8500, is capa-
ble to lift 1,000 tonnes at 8.5 meter
radius, comparable to a CC 8800.
Major changes include the split of the
upper carrier, the increased superlift
radius and ballast, a reinforcement
of the main boom, revision of the
boom head and new winches.
Currently, we have 8 CC 4800s in
service and the results in Kazakhstan,
where we currently deploy the 1st
RK 8500, may lead to additional
conversions for the remaining cranes.
Other examples are the construction Warehouse spare parts
of a crawler / pedestal crane that
operates on a small quay and still
leaves room for cargo traffic to pass
underneath (see page 12) and the
testing and certification of special
devices for the Baku and Yolla
projects.”
What type of specialists is
employed at EMD?
“They are highly skilled engineers
with lots of on-site experience.
Moreover, they are willing to travel
the world to even the most remote
location at any time. EMD-specialists
often accompany our crews and are
in charge of the construction, checks,
assembly, testing and safety.

Auxilary equipment warehouse

In fact, we have specialist available for lifting and transport technology

any time and this contributes much
to our versatility. Other factors are
our warehouses for spare parts
(such as engines, lifting wires and
other critical items) and auxilary
equipment. These aspects really
power Mammoet solutions.”
New technologies mature quickly.
Testing and How can you catch up with it?
certification “This is really an issue and it applies
of the upgraded not only to EMD-specialists but also
CC 4800 to to our regular operators and crews.
RK 8500, lifting As to develop the necessary feeling
1036 tonnes.
we maintain close ties with manu-
facturers. In addition, operators
participate in trainee programs and
are offered attractive opportunities
for advanced learning and develop-
ment. But all that we offer would be
in vain if the basic mindset of our
people was wrong. Fortunately they
are proud to work with Mammoet
and are eager to learn about new
developments and technologies. I’m
sure, with these people, we’re always
ready to benefit from any promising
technological development!”

Testing and certification

of the special devices
developed for the Baku
and Yolla projects.

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Mammoet wins prestigious awards
Both the European Association of
Heavy Haulage Transport and Mobile
Cranes (ESTA) and the US Specialized
Carriers and Riggers Association
(SC&RA) decided that jobs executed
by Mammoet yielded an outstanding
performance. The award winning
projects made all of the ‘Mammoet
family’ once more proud of its shared
achievements. Since the jury members
are colleagues and representatives of
the industries, Mammoet considers
the awards as a true recognition of
its renowned and successful way of
executing its jobs.
The SC&RA held the annual confer-
ence in Tucson, Arizona (USA). The
itinerary included awarding the lifting
and heavy haulage jobs of the year.
Mammoet had 2 entries in the catego-
ry of ‘projects over US $ 750,000’.
Jurjen Hoogstra, technical and
Expansion of the Mammoet fleet
This year Mammoet has expanded its fleet with the following equipment:
New Cranes 2 X
8 X Demag AC 50-1 4 X
5 X Liebherr LTM 1030/2 1 X
3 X Liebherr LTM 1054/1 1 X
2 X Liebherr LTC 1055 1 X
3 X Liebherr LTM 1055/1 5 X
3 X Liebherr LTM 1060/2 2 X
Mammoet World 2004 Page 19
Mammoet News
Heavy Lift Terminal in Schiedam
At its premises in Schiedam, Mammoet inaugurated a large Heavy Lift Terminal
for temporary storage of equipment and cargo of its own and on contract
basis for customers. As of mid 2003, operations can be supported by a PHB
harbor crane to achieve load-out and load-in of cargo til 250 tonnes. The total
area now covers 85,000 square meters but an expansion with 20,000 square
meters has already been scheduled.
The Terminal in the Port of Rotterdam plays a pivot role in logistics. Many
transformers and other equipment for power stations are stored here temporarily,
awaiting overseas shipment to – for instance – the US. In addition, the area
serves as a warehouse for crane parts, trailers, smaller cranes, ballasting
and mooring equipment, and specialized tools. Large sea-going vessels can
be moored easily, ready to take cargo or to deliver items to the Terminal.
At the same time, smaller inland ships can reach the terminal, thus facilitating
reshipment to and from Europe’s mainland industries in The Netherlands,
Germany and other areas.
More Maritime Moves…
As of early this year, BTS, Bergings- en Transportmaatschappij Scheffer B.V.
became a member of our Mammoet organization. BTS is managed from
Mammoets headquarters in Schiedam and offers a wide range of maritime
services. Some examples are the installation of bridges, harbor-related opera-
tions, ship building, installation of offshore windmill farms, launching of vessels
and yachts, salvages, and activities for the road and water way infrastructures.
Thus, BTS enhances the versatility of Mammoets’ maritime facilities.
m2
Examples of the BTS fleet components are:
00
,0
• 3 floating Sheerlegs with capacity between 130 and 300 tonnes
20
• 15 pontoons for loads between 140 and 1,710 tonnes
• 6 tug / push boats
• specialized ships and equipment
Please see the back cover of this issue for contact info.
Scheduled expansion
commercial manager, was delegated
to present both projects in exactly
20 minutes each. The jury focused
on various aspects, like design,
maintenance, construction, safety,
innovation, planning and complexity.
It decided the projects ‘Stadium in
Dusseldorf, Germany’ and ‘Relocating
a processing plant in Amsterdam,
Netherlands’ were the best of those
presented at the conference. “It’s
really moving when, like the famous
Oscar awards, the audience goes
silent and tension increases as the
anchor man on stage opens the
envelope and mentions … your
company!” says Jurjen.
The ESTA held its first award ceremo-
ny during the Bauma fair in Munich,
Germany. Again Mammoet had 2 project. The latter won the second
entries: the MiRO Karlsruhe refinery prize and the first one … the first
upgrade project in Wilhemshafen, prize.
Germany, and again the Amsterdam
Mammoet exhibits!
In 2004 Mammoet participates in • Oil Sands Trade Show 2004
the following exhibitions: September 8- 9, 2004,
Liebherr LTM 1080/1 Used Cranes Transport Fort McMurray, Canada
Liebherr LTM 1100/2 2 X Demag CC 4800 36 axle lines SPMT • Global Petroleum Show 2004 • Rio Oil & Gas 2004
Liebherr LTM 1150/1 3 X Demag CC 2800 2 X Mercedes Benz June 8-10, 2004, October 4-7, 2004,
Liebherr LTM 1300/1 1 X Demag CC 1800 4160 SLT 8X4 Calgary, Canada Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Liebherr LTM 1500 1 X Kobelco CKE 2500 2 X Mercedes Benz • ONS 2004 • Bauma China 2004
Sumitomo SCX 2500 3354 S 6X4 August 24-27 2004, November 16-19, 2004,
Kobelco CKE 2500 Stavanger, Norway Shanghai, China
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Colophon
Editor Mammoet Holding B.V.,
Corporate Communications
Mammoet Merchandising
Work Wear for Extreme Conditions
can operate safely at all times, we must put extreme requirements to the
clothing of our crews. As from September this year, we will market a complete
line of work shoes, thermo underwear, socks, jackets and trousers with our
brand name Mammoet on it. All items have been tested in real situations by
a 20 people test team and thus have passed the most severe reviews you
can imagine. If an item is approved by Mammoet, it is simply the best
you can buy.” The 1st item in de Work Wear line is a robust safety
shoe, called Jura.
It is true, people can be mad about cranes, trailers, trucks and other equip-
ment for heavy lifting and transport. The same kind of motivation that drives Mammoet Work Wear can
‘spotters’ to the runways of airports may trigger a hobby for life! Over 500 be ordered online via
people already joined the Mammoet Club. These friends are eager to get www.mammoetworkwear.com and will be sold through
information on any new development, and they collect scale models or selected retailers. Worldwide delivery should take no more than a
other items that are associated with the World of Mammoet. Currently, the week. Services start in September 2004.
Mammoet Shop offers an attractive range of products like scale models,
videos, DVDs, books and other items. For a comprehensive list, visit the
website www.mammoetstore.com
Membership entitles for discounts and extras like a Mammoet calendar, a
Club Day at the Schiedam premises, a quarterly magazine and other benefits.
Expansion
“Mammoet” is linked to ‘power’, ‘robustness’, ‘engineering’ and for
instance ‘extreme conditions’. It develops into a brand name. In the
wake of the successful merchandising, Mammoet decided to expand
the brand name even further to professional clothing, called Work
Wear. “We often work under extreme conditions indeed” says Joep
Hansen, responsible for the merchandising department. “Imagine a
gale force 10, a blizzard, or the heat in a desert. To make sure we
Mammoet Van Oord Windmills B.V. Italy ASIA MIDDLE EAST Canada
Phone +31 (0)10 204 2549 • Mammoet Italy S.R.L. - Mammoet Canada Eastern Ltd.
Fax +31 (0)10 204 2696 Milanofiori China United Arab Emirates • Montreal QC
Phone +39 02 57 777 401 Shenyang Mammoet Heavy • Mammoet Dubai Phone +1 450 923 9706
BTS Bergings- en Transport Fax +39 02 57 51 51 00 Transport & Lifting Co. Ltd. Phone +971 (0)4 333 1252 Fax +1 450 923 1815
Maatschappij Scheffer B.V. • Mammoet Palumbo S.R.L. - Phone + 86 (0) 24 231 80 456 Fax +971 (0)4 333 1366 • Cambridge ON
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