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Mammoet Maritime, with its head office at Schiedam, the Netherlands, recently extended its fleet with the SCHELDE multipurpose pontoon. This seagoing pontoon (length: 85 meters, breadth 22 meters) can be used for RoRo and conventional transport, and to launch large ships. Mammoet recently launched a frigate and a large yacht with the SCHELDE.

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Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding commissioned Mammoet Maritime to launch a frigate using our new pontoon, the SCHELDE. In the night of Monday 12 July, during high tide, we positioned the Schelde pontoon on the area in front of Damen's RoRo quay which falls dry at low tide.

Mammoet Maritime put the coastal tug Zephyrus into service on 1 April. The Zephyrus was built in 1992, under the name IJsselstroom, at Jac. Den Breejen & Zn in Hardinxveld.

Mammoet Maritime has undertaken four transports for a German transportation company. This concerns four transformers with the following dimensions: 13.80 x 4.05 x 4.70 meters and weighing 446 tons each.

The present railway bridge between Kehl and Strasbourg no longer met the requirements made. Instructions were therefore given to build a new railway bridge across the Rhine.

Details of the dry dock: Dimensions about 50 x 17.50 x 10 meters
Dock weight about 600 tons
Period of the work: Weeks 49 and 50, 2009.
Location: harbor of Lauwersoog (NL); depth of water about 6 meters
Mammoet Maritime equipment deployed:

•   Sheerleg AMSTERDAM
•   Salvage vessel JUMBO
•   Pontoon KRAMMER
•   Pusher tug IJsland
•   Work barge 1
•   Oil boom

Hired equipment:

•   Various pusher tugs from Bokschoten Tug service
•   GRUNO 4 Bijma Tug service

The existing railway bridge over the Danube in Tulln, Austria was removed and two new sections put back in its place.

The existing bridge was formed by three sections each 85 meters in length and weighing about 800 tons, and one part 35 meters in length weighing about 300 tons. The new bridge has two sections each 185 meters in length and weighing about 1750 tons.

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19 August 2009
Mammoet Salvage, based in Schiedam, the Netherlands, has started the salvage operation of the Formosaproduct Brick. This product tanker, with a length of 228.5 meters, is on fire in the Straits of Malacca, 20 miles from Port Dickson, Malaysia. The tanker, carrying 58,000 tons of highly flammable naphtha, collided with the Ostende Max bulk carrier on 18 August. The collision led to a fire on the Formosaproduct Brick and 9 of its crew of 25 are still missing. After extinguishing the fire and stabilizing the ship, Mammoet Salvage will tow the tanker to a safe port.

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Mammoet Salvage recently managed to recover 9.5 tons of gold and silver mineral concentrate from the Polar Mist. The ship and its valuable cargo sank on 16 January 2009, 40 miles from the coast of southern Argentina, in a water depth of 80 meters.

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The location:  The Kennedybrücke in Bonn, Germany.
Weight:     350 tons
Length:       92 metres

The Kennedybrücke, a bridge that crosses the Rhine at Bonn, needs to be widened on both sides. It has been decided to hang the extended section on the bridge from the water. A tandem hoist was needed for the middle section, so the contractor called in Mammoet Maritime.

Before we started, we already knew that we had to deal with some critical points. First, we had to jack-up the bridge (with a weight of 620 tons, 90 meters long and 17 meters wide) approximately 2 meters to be able to install the skidtracks with skidshoes under the supporting points of the bridge. Due to the high level difference between quay and water (2.65 meters) we had to build the skidtrack on the barge (Mammoet Maritime’s Marne 1 + 2 coupled together, 42 meters long and 15 meters wide) onto high supports. We could vary the height of these supports on the barge in case the waterlevel would rise or fall with a maximum of 200 mm.

BTS will be called Mammoet Maritime. The new name makes it clear to the outside world that we, as a provider of maritime services, are a member of the Mammoet group, a position that comes with a variety of economies of scale and synergy benefits for our clients.

The SS Rotterdam was recently moored for the last time in the Port of Rotterdam by Mammoet Maritime.
The flexible mooring structure is constructed in such a way that it can both rise and fall with the tides. Jos Leentvaar, Senior project manager of Mammoet Maritime is very proud of the team which has done a fantastic job.

We hope you will enjoy the design and you'll be inspired by the projects described here.

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Location: Duisburg, Germany
Job: Installing a pipe bridge Challenge: Restricted space

Mammoet Deutschland was commissioned to install a pipe bridge across the harbor entrance at HKM in Duisburg. The bridge weighed 290 tons and had a length of 120 meters and a height and width of 5.5 meters.

Location: Flushing, the Netherlands
Job: Transporting yachts

Mammoet and BTS moved a yacht from a shipyard in Flushing. Mammoet used SPMTs to move it from the building where it was constructed onto the BTS “Krammer” pontoon. The ballasting system was used to keep the pontoon steady. BTS then transported the yacht to another yard where it was floated free of the pontoon at high tide.

Location: Botlek, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Job: Transporting and installing tanks

Location: Antwerp, Belgium 
Job: Recovering a sunk dredger

Location: Tiel, the Netherlands
Job: Replacing navigation lock components
Challenge: Restricted space

“Required some careful manoeuvring”

LOCATION: Terneuzen, the Netherlands
Job: Installing a bridge Challenge: Restricted space in the lock

Here are some photos taken in Bremerhaven of the placing of a swing-bridge.

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“The environmental impact of spillages and other incidents is minimized”

BTS used a pontoon to remove the bridge sections that each weighed some 200 tons....

Last Sunday October 16, salvage and transport company BTS, a Mammoet subsidiary, made the first preparations in order to salvage the freighter “Ilona M” ...

Rhede/Germany – Friday, 21 October,

Last Thursday BTS deployed a second  sheerleg in the endeavors to lift the sunken “Ilona M” inland cargo vessel from the bed of the Dortmund-Ems Canal...

The extreme currents in the Dortmund-Eems Canal and the narrow passage at low water have both greatly complicated the salvage of the “Ilona M” inland cargo vessel.

In the months since June 2006 BTS has been assisting with laying a gas pipe from Medemblik to Workum.

Mammoet was awarded a contract to assist in the construction of the Prince Bernhard Bridge.

After completing tests in Schiedam the newly built pontoon Marne 1 left for Le Havre to transport 2 generators and 2 thermal blocks to Vaires sur Marne.

The existing bridges weighed about 70 tons each and the new concrete bridge decks about 300 tons each.

In the past week 22-2005, our floating sheerleg removed a flashboard from the lock in Zeltingen (Germany).

A new bridge was built across the river Spree in the Oberschöneweide district of Berlin.

The French TGV, type V150, that had improved the rail speed record to 574.8 kilometers per hour, made a lap of honor over the Seine in Paris in the Whitsun weekend of 2007 to celebrate this achievement.

In February 2007 the inland boat “De Defi” sunk after a collision with the tanker “Walcheren” at the entrance to the Albert Canal in Luik, Belgium.

Together with third parties, BTS salvaged the wreck of the RoRo ship, Seatrader, within a few weeks.

The new bridge components for the Monbijou bridges over the Spree in the centre of Berlin were installed in two nights.

Stürzelberg 9/5 - The Dutch cargo ship Allegro (1410 tons) that sank on 22 April of this year was lifted on 9 May.

Crane pontoon IBIS was deployed in the demolition of the bridge across the river Saale (Germany).

The old swing bridge of Kornwerderzand (Netherlands) was replaced by a new bridge.

Under freezing conditions BTS assisted in transporting in the new bridge near Miesterhorst Bergfriede across the Mittelland canal (Germany).

Our floating crane Amsterdam was deployed for loading and unloading crane parts for a container crane.

The first journey of our new push tug Alaska (2 x 550 ps) was to Strasbourg on the French side of the river Rhine.

At the end of May 2005 we transported a 90-metres-long bridge section weighing 250 tons to the centre of Berlin with our pontoons "Wieringer" and "990".

By order of a mutual insurance company we salvaged the barge "Jacob Evert" on 9 April of this year.