SAL and local agent Sai Maritime & Management P. Ltd. will host a booth at the Cargo Shop South Asia 2010 in Mumbai, India,  World Trade Centre, 25-27 March. Our stall no. is P-301.

SAL has now lifted the option and will equip the new buildings of Type 183 with a Dynamic Positioning I System (DP 1). The dynamic positioning feature will allow customers to use these vessels as a combined solution for both transport and off-shore installation including sub-sea handshakes. They will be suitable for off-shore windmill installation works, in particular for installation of piles, mounting of transition pieces and feedering of components from shore to off-shore installation platforms.

SAL has opened an office in Helsinki to meet growing market demands in the Finland region especially for heavy lift and project transportations and to provide the added value of direct communication to our Finland based clients. The new office is located at "K" Line Finland premises. The office location emerges from the joint venture created between SAL and "K" Line in April 2007.

For more information please contact:
Peter Sandberg
Country Manager SAL Finland Oy
+ 358 (0) 400 931 276
or Sune Thorleifsson
Project Director SAL GmbH & Co. KG Germany
+49 (0) 4142 8181-22

In this years' badminton LI-NING CHINA OPEN, SAL sponsored the coach of the Danish national team. The games were broadcasted in China with the finals even broadcasted live in several countries throughout Europe. The photo below is taken from the Men’s Single Final between Chinese player Lin Dan and the Danish Jan Ø. Jørgensen. Danish coach Claus Poulsen tries to encourage his player. Lin Dan won the match in the end though. SAL congratulates the Danish national team on the great results in China.

The Breakbulk Asia – Transportation Conference & Exhibition took place for the second time in 2010 (Suntec Conference & Exibition Centre Singapore). The event covered all topics regarding breakbulk cargo on the Asian market. Thank you for visiting our booth #G09 in hall 404.

SAL is shrugging off the global economic crisis by expanding its Australasian operations. On August 3, 2009 SAL opened an office in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Managing Director Berndt R. Olesen said the Australian expansion would be of great benefit to the region’s oil, gas, and mining industry and is part of a wider strategic plan to accommodate the growing shipping demand from the resources sectors in Australasia. "Many of our large clients, including BHP and Woodside, are based in Western Australia and with around $200B worth of oil and gas projects in the pipeline, the future of the Australian industry looks certain despite the downturn in international oil and gas production."

For more information please call Berndt R. Olesen, Managing Director SAL Shipping Australia Pty Ltd, on +61 8 9336 8504, or Sune Thorleifsson, Project Director SAL GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, on +49 4142 8181-22.

Office address:
SAL Shipping Australia Pty Ltd
2 Bannister Street
Fremantle W.A. 6160 

From October 13-15, 2009, SAL & Scantrans Inc. have hosted a stall at the 20th Annual Breakbulk Conference & Exhibition at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA.

Following closely on the historical feat of loading the heaviest piece of 585 mtons out of Mundra port in April this year, SAL and Sai Maritime & Management P.Ltd. created another record by booking and loading the heaviest piece out of Mumbai port in the beginning of July.

Nominated vessel MV Anne-Sofie (2 x 700 mtons SWL) loaded two massive reactors weighing 895 mtons (length 26.10 x width 8.10 x height 7.10 m) and 1,006 mtons (length 29.50 x width 8.10 x height 7.40 m) manufactured at Hazira by Larsen & Toubro.

Taking advantage of the calm weather, both reactors were loaded within a record time of 6 hours.

Moreover, the reactors were discharged in the same record time at destination port Eleusis/Greece.

SAL was entrusted to transport two reactors of 941 mtons and 955 mtons and a length of 47.80 m each from Kobe/Japan to New Orleans and Corpus Christi in the USA. MV “Regine” carried out this loading operation in May 2009. The cargo was brought alongside vessel’s port side by barge, and the lifting operation of both reactors was performed in a tandem lift. For this operation, SAL used four pieces of vessel’s own 300 mtons shackles and 373 mtons grummets.

SAL vessel MV "Annette" has loaded the heaviest piece handled by Mundra Port so far: a 585 mtons one package Boiler Block Assembly measuring 15.29 x 11.77 x 13 m. SAL's local partner SAI Maritime & Management was responsible for the freight management of the Boiler Block Assembly which is destined for Al Jubail.
The technical planning for loading the Boiler was done in close co-ordination between the consignor Thermax Logistics Team,  their nominated freight forwarder Panprojects, SAI Maritime,  and SAL's in-house technical department Lühe Engineering. Four month prior loading, all technical details were planned, e.g. the sizes of the lifting lugs on the boiler, shackles, spreaders, slings, which were all available on board the vessel to ensure a smooth operation in record time.

In October 2008, SAL was awarded by Seastream JV Australia to engineer and execute the sea transportation of a 800 mtons Spider buoy for the Australian Pyrenees Project. In March 2009, SAL’s new building of type 176, MV “Anne-Sofie”, carried the buoy from its building factory in Shanghai to the Malus Channel in the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia.

Picture Gallery Spider Buoy

After 2008, SAL will exhibit again at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Reliant Center in Houston, Texas. We are looking forward to welcoming you at the German Pavilion, booth no. 4835-1.

We would kindly like to announce the opening of the SAL Italy Representative Office in the premises of "K" Line (Europe) in Genoa. This office location emerges from the joint venture created between SAL and "K" Line in April 2007. The new office will operate as marketing and sales representation to provide the added value of direct communication to our Italy based clients. Mr. Maurizio Pigna will be in charge of the SAL Representative Office. The Genoa office will be staffed with a sales team who are looking forward to exploring ways of cooperation in the Italian market.

For further information please contact:

SAL Italy
Corso Andrea Podestà 12/8
16128 Genova/Italia

PIC: Mr. Maurizio Pigna
Phone: + 39 010 5330366
Fax: + 39 010 9845540
Mobile: + 39 346 1264859
E-mail: SAL-Italy@klineitalia.it
Personal: Maurizio.Pigna@klineitalia.it

After its naming ceremony on February 12, MV "Regine" started its maiden voyage towards the Mediterranean Sea.
One of her first projects will be the loading of one reactor measured 49.39 x 8.50 x 6.78 m with a weight of 772 mtons in Porto Marghera / Italy.
The MV "Regine" is the last of four new heavy lift vessels of type 176 delivered to the joint venture between SAL and “K” Line, collectively called SAL. All vessels of type 176 have an unrivalled speed of 20 knots and a combined crane capacity of 1,400 mt SWL. As her sister vessels MV "Frauke", MV "Anne-Sofie" and MV "Trina", the MV "Regine" was built by German shipyard Sietas and sails under German flag.