Rig
Mover or Flo-Flo Ship Jobs.
Semi-submerging
type of heavy-lift ships are generally called as a ‘flo/flo’ for
float-on/float-off. These ships have a lengthy and low well deck amid a bow
pilot house and an aft machinery place. In external look, to some extent it is alike
to a dry bulk carrier or certain types of oil tanker.
A
heavy-lift ships or rig movers are vessels designed to transport very heavy
loads which are beyond the capacity of normal ships to handle. Heavy-lift ships
are of two types, semi-submerging vessels capable of lifting another ship,
offshore units, yachts etc in sea water and transporting it and vessels that expand
offloading amenities at inefficiently equipped ports.
Its
ballast tanks can be deluged to lower the well deck underneath the water's level,
letting oil platforms, other vessels, or other floating load to be shifted into
position for loading. The ballast water tanks are then pumped out, and the well
deck rises to take on the weight. To balance the freight, different tanks can
be pumped unequally.
The
flo/flo business's major client source is the offshore oil and gas industry. These
rig movers transfer several oil drilling rigs from their dockyard to operation
location. Flo/Flo ships can transport the rigs from their building place to a
drilling position in approximately three to four times the speed of an own deployed
rig. Speedy deployment of the rig to the drilling location can be converted into
larger savings.
Flo/Flo
also carry other huge cargo and very large yachts. The heavy-lift ships are also
utilised to transport damaged warships back to its country’s shipyard for
repairs. Like U.S.Navy did to carry two warships on different occasions, the
first one was on 14 April 1988 when the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B.
Roberts, was damaged by mine in the central Persian Gulf, towing frigate to
Dubai where it was taken on aboard the heavy lift ship Mighty Servant 2 back to
Newport, Rhode Island.
On 12
October 2000 the U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Cole was carried by MV Blue
Marlin from Aden, Yemen to Pascagoula,
Mississippi, after the warship was damaged in a bombing assault. Several of the
bigger heavy lift ships are owned by the company Dockwise, including Mighty
Servant 1, MV Blue Marlin, and MV Black Marlin.
