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Environmentally-conscious offshore cranes: Seatrax, Inc. equipment used to install turbines for Gunfleet Sands wind farm April 8, 2009—Seatrax, Inc., in its contribution to improving the environment, is using its offshore cranes to install several wind turbines off the coast of England. Mounted on the vessel KS Titan-2, owned by KS Energy Services, Seatrax’s two 10520 leg cranes are being used to install several wind turbines at the wind farm Gunfleet Sands, scheduled for completion in 2010. Gunfleet Sands, located near the mouth of the Thames River, was developed by Dong Energy and Siemens Wind Power. With 48 Siemens wind turbines and a capacity of 172 megawatts, Gunfleet Sands is expected to generate clean renewable energy to service roughly 120,000 homes. ...more. See more photos of these cranes in action. |
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No. 1 rule of crane management: Use Seatrax’s CCM7000 2009—Seatrax, Inc., with a global reputation of excellence and innovation, has developed a crane management system to diagnose and solve typical operation, maintenance and repair issues many offshore facility managers face on a frequent basis. Using a touch screen interface, the Seatrax CCM7000 is an operator’s single source to access necessary crane operating information (including load charts, pressure readings and wind speed and direction) combined with a load moment indicator that calculates the allowable capacity of the crane at any given position. The CCM7000 also provides warning and alerts, both audible and visual, for example, if a load drifts downward if it is not signaled to do so. |
