Bangkok, Thailand - Some things are not manufactured to be transported by sea. This was the case for two 830 ton Port Cranes that X2 Projects Member ALTIUS needed to move from The Netherlands to Spain.  ALTIUS was able to come up with a technical solution for making possible their sea-transportation. This involved the installation of a specially designed internal reinforcement, strengthening the structure of the Port Cranes for withstanding the forces during the sea-voyage. A total amount of around 80 tons of steel were required for this purpose. In addition to this, ALTIUS fitted on the Port Cranes specially designed “lifting trunnions” in order to enable the loading and discharge operations of both units by the ship’s cranes in LO-LO basis. Both Port Cranes were shipped from Rotterdam Port, where also ALTIUS was in charge of installing the internal reinforcements onto the Port Cranes and involved with the preliminary preparations prior to the actual loading operations. In this challenging project, ALTIUS has supplied all the engineering, coordination, planning, project management, steel, manpower and required auxiliary machinery in order to achieve the safe transportation of these special cargoes. Since the preliminary stages of this project, technical departments of ALTIUS and BIGLIFT worked together in order to define and calculate all the involved operations and technical aspects in this transport. It has been a quite complex transport operation due to the critical lifting stability, lifting height and also a tight stowage.  With the discharge operations in TERMAVI Container Terminal (Vigo Port – SPAIN), ALTIUS has successfully completed the transportation Project.   This achievement confirms ALTIUS’ large experience and capabilities on Port Crane relocation and  sea-transport around the world in all transport modalities, either RO-RO or LO-LO.