Huisman Brazil receives first order
Draft of the new Huisman facility in Brazil (Image: Huisman)
The order includes three identical sets of cranes for the new drilling vessels Cassino, Curumim and Salinas, currently being built at the Rio Grande Shipyard. Each set consists of two 60-tonne pedestal mounted offshore cranes, two 60-tonne knuckle boom cranes and one 12-tonne pipe-handling knuckle boom crane (PHKBC). The cranes can be used for various applications, including unloading of supply vessels, pipe handling, offshore construction work, and subsea installation. The first set of cranes will be installed on the Cassino and will be delivered in 2015. In the second quarter of 2016, the Curumim will be equipped and in the third quarter of 2017, the last set will be installed on board the Salinas.
Huisman opened an engineering, sales and service office in Rio de Janeiro in 2008. In 2012, the company started the construction of its new production facility in the city of Navegantes, located alongside the river Itajai-Açu in the state Santa Catarina, a state in the southern part of Brazil bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
The new Huisman production facility is planned to be operational in 2014.
