Heavy Lift and Transportation
Trusted Turnkey Heavy Lift and Transportation
The float-off of HMS Venturer for Babcock International Group using the CD01
The float-off of HMS Venturer for Babcock International Group using the CD01
Intro
With extensive experience in the defence, nuclear, oil & gas, civil infrastructure, and renewable energy sectors, Malin Abram are here to provide you with specialist technical, operational, and project management services across every stage of your complex lifting and transportation projects.
Where You Gain Value
Our reputation is built on our core principles: quality, expertise, and trust. This means you will always be provided with independent, expert guidance that ensures the right skills, equipment, approach, and the best overall outcome for your project.
You will receive support from the earliest stages. Through feasibility studies and pre-tender collaboration, we help identify the most effective solutions for handling, movement, lifting, transportation, and installation. By resolving potential challenges early, we significantly reduce operational risk and improve project certainty.
Full support from concept to completion: You can access fully tailored turnkey solutions for heavy lift projects of any scale or complexity. with the complete management of operations taken care of, from equipment procurement and logistics coordination, to cargo integrity assessments and operational delivery.
EFAB caustic tank lift
EFAB caustic tank lift
Our engineers combine technical excellence with practical experience, to design and deliver innovative lifting and transport strategies that meet your unique project demands . Heavy lift is far more than simply supplying cranes, vessels, barges, or heavy haulage equipment, we are here to support you to develop practical, economical, and innovative solutions for your complex transportation challenges.
By working collaboratively, we offer you a cohesive, team-based approach that ensures your project is delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards.
- Civils, Heavy Lift and Transportation
Transportation of Water Treatment Modules for Sullom Voe for RSE
- Civils, Heavy Lift and Transportation, Marine Equipment, Specialist Welding & Manufacturing
Kennacraig Linkspan
- Civils, Heavy Lift and Transportation, Marine Equipment, Specialist Welding & Manufacturing
Design, build and transportation of Saturation Dive Module for Well-Safe Solutions
Heavy Lift Services for You
What You Can Access
01 Heavy Lift Engineering and Technical Services
Our engineers combine technical excellence with practical experience, to design and deliver innovative lifting and transport strategies that meet yourunique project demands. Heavy lift is far more than simply supplying cranes, vessels, barges, or heavy haulage equipment – we are here to support you to develop practical, economical, and innovative solutions for your complex transportation challenges.
02 Heavy Lift Shipping Services
We provide specialist planning and execution for the transportation of heavy and oversized cargo by sea. Our team manages vessel selection, route planning, cargo securing, and port operations to ensure safe and efficient shipment. With experience supporting complex international projects across defence, energy, infrastructure and renewables, we deliver reliable marine transport solutions for even the most challenging cargo.
03 Turnkey Load-Out and Float-Off Operations
Our team have extensive experience in the load-out and float-off of large and complex structures, from Type 26 and 31 surface ships, HMS Glasgow, HMS Cardiff, HMS Venturer and HMS Active, to smaller, still complex scopes like HMS Brocklesby, a Hunt class vessel. From all front-end engineering, through to equipment supply, operational management and execution, we take full responsibility for the entire process, giving our clients peace of mind. Our turnkey approach ensures that critical operations are carefully planned, risk assessed and delivered safely on schedule and within budget.
04 Complex Marine Lifting
Our engineers and project managers specialise in the planning and delivery of complex marine lifting operations involving cranes, heavy lift vessels, barges and specialist rigging systems. We develop detailed lift plans, lifting procedures and risk assessments to ensure every lift is executed safely and efficiently, regardless of scale or environmental constraints.
05 Heavy Haulage Solutions
We plan and manage the transportation of oversized and abnormal loads by road or inland transport systems. This includes route surveys, transport engineering, permitting, equipment selection and full logistics coordination. Our team ensures that heavy cargo moves safely and efficiently from fabrication yards, ports or storage facilities to final project locations.
06 Warranty Survey and Third-Party Review
Our independent experts provide warranty survey and third-party technical review services to support project developers, contractors and insurers. We assess lifting, transport and installation methodologies to verify that operations are safe, compliant and aligned with industry best practice. This independent oversight helps reduce risk and provides confidence for all project stakeholders.
How Your Project Benefits
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Seamless coordination across teams and contractors
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Full control over complex operations
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Delivered safely, on time and to spec
126
Years
Proven on Complex Projects
This approach has supported countless large scale projects across the past 126 years – from defence programmes and oil and gas projects, to emergent nuclear needs and renewables requirements.