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7 WALNEY EXTENSION PROJECT

A combination of special designed steel cradles with tailor-
made wooden inlets serves as seafastening arrangement for
the MPs. The cradles are installed within a kind of plug and play
system. They are stowed between steel plates welded as stop-
pers and additional steel wedges fix them. Easy to install, easy to
remove.
Thus, when the vessel’s crew changes the cargo setting from
MPs to TPs, they can easily remove the steel cradles from the
hatch covers and the tween deck. So, the TPs can be secured
with extensive grillages on the tank top and MV Svenja sails with
open hatch.

Philip: “We had to design a sea-fastening system that copes
with the cargo variety and facilitates a quick handling. More-
over, we optimized the sea-fastening design in several design
cycles. We found the perfect balance between safe, flexible
handling and maximum workability in the North Sea during
winter weather conditions.”

Martin Haag