BIGGEST SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE CRANE SHIP SLEIPNIR ARRIVES AT ROTTERDAM PORT - 4K SHIPSPOTTING MARCH 2024 

Thank you so much for a great video! At one time I worked on an offshore supply boat servicing two of Heerema’s construction barges. Our boat was based in Berwick Bay LA which is right below Morgan City LA. We made one to two runs a week carrying fuel water groceries and any construction materials they needed. The oilfield work dried up in the 80s and they put both barges in Galveston Tx. We left Berwick Bay and went down to stay in Galveston to continue getting fuel and water to the barges as needed. They were a great company to work for but eventually our contract was terminated due to the lack of oilfield work. The owners came down to the boat and told us we were all being laid off because they couldn’t find any other work for us. We left Galveston TX and headed back to Morgan City LA. When we got there we parked the boat at a old dive company dock and the owners asked meif I wanted to finish out my hitch keeping watch on the boat until the boat was moved to be moth balled at another area in Morgan City. We all worked on a 28 days on 14 days off schedule. I had two weeks to go and I kept the inside of the boat cleaned, keeping a check on the engine room and changing our generators daily. I hated to see this job end up but the oilfield was really bad going into the start of the 80s so it didn’t surprise me when our contract ended. Thanks to Heerema for a job well done!

I work with the company that built these cranes. I pent 6 months in their yard while working on the Noble Globetrotter rigs. Amazing. This is why I got into the oilfield equipment business.

Now that is a crane to be proud of, what a machine!! When you see it next to the big tanker you can really appreciate just how enormous it is. Thank you for capturing it on video and letting us see.

That’s what Baltimore needs for sure.

In the words of crocodile Dundee now this is a crane

Greetings yu'all . I'm new around here. I spent ten years on US Navy ships and I LOVED being underway! This brings me back. Sublime.

Loving the accompanying birdsong . Unusual background to ships

Better get going to Baltimore......services required!

The Sleipnir (Odin's eight-legged horse), Construction Year 2019 at a cost of $1 to $1.5 billion dollars, Lift Capacity 20,000 metric tons (10,000 tons per crane). Sleipnir is outfitted with LED-lighting, has a heat/cold energy recovery system, is equipped with variable frequency drives, state-of-the-art silicon-based anti-fouling paint to reduce pollution. It can run on LNG! It is a marvel of engineering and its home is the Port of Rotterdam. If you want to see it in action check out the Leviathan installation videos. Best guess, about a million dollar per day to charter, probably a lot more on short notice. I take it we know were some of the $60 million dollars in emergency funds is going.

Now that's the 8th wonder of the world!

EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT video with crisp steady images and ACTUAL sounds !!! Many thanks ❤️❤️❤️

From memory I think sleipnir was the 10 legged steed of Odin in Norse mythology.

First time I have seen his beauty. Looks very versatile. Thank you fo posting.

This Crane can probably pick up the entire Francis Scott Key bridge all by itself.

WoooooW they said that it was huge but I never imagined this HUGE.

The birds excited to see this big sailing beauty. Hear Dem birds 🤣🤣🤣🤣🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

That thing is *massive!* It always blows my mind, how they can take tons of steel, concrete, and goods and *make them float!* The physics and engineering is incredible. Amazing 😲👍🏽⚓🌹

...it's like watching a city slowly moving...

Man, I'd hate to pay the hourly bill to rent that baby ! But what a beauty she is !

Magnificent ships going about their business. 🎉

Sleipnir, because it has eight "legs"! Clever!

I worked as a surveyor in the early north sea 1960's, where we learnt a lot from the US companies about the oil industry, they used very basic Barges and tugs. Once the Europeans learnt what was what, they invested in new equipment barges and tugs/ supply ships far more advanced than the US. I then worked in the Persian gulf and west Africa for the US companies like Brown and Root and operated from the same old basic barges and tugs, barges that had worn out crawler deck cranes and main deck generators, constantly breaking down. They never learnt to use innervation rather than keeping old wrecks working and the european designs moved in efficiency was the keyword. The US was great at building many things like aircraft and warships, but the US oil industry was left in the stone age

Those three guys are making a burrito run.

The Dutch are the undisputed masters of marine engineering. They'd never allow such a Charlie Foxtrot as the FSK bridge to happen, but if it did, They'd have it cleared away in a week or two. Absolute lords of mega-marine construction / salvage

Survey, up-fit, outward bound.... beautiful vessel, marvel of engineering and industry. Thanks for the stream.

That thing is badass😎

GOAT for ship spotting channel!!

Dang those are some nice life boats!

They will need that in Baltimore to pick up the bridge

When they said huge,they really ment it.That crane is the largest I've ever seen.🤙🇺🇲😳

Magnificent. Truly magnificent vessel. It would be awesome to have it in Baltimore, but it would run aground far from the site of the fallen bridge. The draft of the Sleipnir (determined depth of the vessel below the waterline) exceeds the depth of the Baltimore Harbor. The draft of the Sleipnir, the biggest crane ship in the world, is 32 meters (105 feet). The depth of the Baltimore Harbor is 15.24 meters (50 feet).

She "Sleipnir" has her homebase here in Rozenburg, at the Caland-channel. Also all Heerema crane vessels have there "homebase" here. I live here in Rozenburg and can see when the are in. The crane has a couple of lights that lighten the sky at night. They have an powerplant on shore here, where the get the power from when the are home.

Merci! De partagé, cette vidéo, de cette, énorme, grue, maritime!! Incroyable!!❤

The sleipner crane ship made the oil tanker look small wow. Imagine seeing it in real. Love your video 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹💯💯💯

Might want to fill up your tanks and head over to Baltimore! Bit of a mess to clean up over there!

Wow amazing sleipner crane ship. Hear how those birds chirping as this big ship slowly passes by with the soft sounds of the waves amazing amazing video 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

I was once the superintendent and captain of the Sleipnir till I retired after falling off its catwalk 120’ down to the water and broke my neck. It was a gigantuous nightmare. Be a farmer, I hated the high seas

Nice video's shipspotting

Echt mooi om tezien😊 Bedankt, Van 🇨🇦🇳🇱

I’d like to see how this crane operates on the high seas in severe weather

I worked in the offshore industry for about 5 years and was always impressed by the sheer size of these installations. I still like to watch these kind of things as I think they are brilliant pieces of engineering.

Crazy Crane . Excellant :)

Seriously u guys need to go to Baltimore Maryland and help out right now they are going to be using a crane that does not have the lifting capacity like u guys do they need u asap

That thing is huge, for a comparison perspective look at the workers standing next to the railing at 3:55

Off to Baltimore.

This looks like one of those contraptions youd see in a post apocalyptic video game!.. Super monstrous and hella cool!!!!

My city needs this right now.

Couldn't agree more! The world of tech is endlessly exciting.

Beautiful to hear nature in the background with all this industrial activity. Nice to to see without explaining everything.

She spent a few days anchored in Walvis Bay Namibia in February..she is massive.

Wow! That thing is huge. Amazing. And the control they have over it. Self docking with out any tugs. Amazing.

At 3:25 it's genuinely like a scene from an episode of Thunderbirds!

Wish you had two channels, one for ships which I would love and another for airplaines not so much... Thank you for these great videos, love them

What an absolute unit

Can you imagine being skilled at operating one of those huge cranes? Nice.

An old friend worked on the Bolder out from New Plymouth NZ, this is much bigger. RIP Paul.

You'd think you were hallucinating if you looked out of your window and saw that inexorably advancing towards you wouldn't you. 😧 Even dwarfs an unladen VLCC. 14:21is that how you get ashore from it! 😂

What a massive boy! Never seen such a thick ship!

WOW!

Maryland needs something like this

Spectacular engineering and craftsmanship to build such an amazing tool. Definitely a mind blowing feat! Hooray! 🇵🇦

Damn imagine being in one of those escape boat and being drop from over 1000 feet into the water lol

Very amazing engineering technology, the effort of human beings

That is a modern marvel.

Alat derek paling keren, sangat besar

What an epic video mate! Liked!

Das ding sieht richtig groß aus, aber ich hatte schon mal Vergnügen gehabt es in echt zu sehen da ist er noch riesiger als es auf dem Bildschirm aussieht. Einfach Wow. Respekt an die Leute die sowas bedienen können und dürfen. Krass

Now That's a crane. Please send it to Baltimore.

Yes, Baltimore needs some giant, specialized equipment such as this, it would appear. The mass and size of what they're lifting and cutting is so huge.

Somebody is operating without a budget.

Don't you just love these ships register in Panama to avoid stricter marine regulations imposed by their own countries..

Breath-taking. Just absolutely incredible.

These smart glasses are out of this world! 👓🚀

I hope it going to Baltimore to help out

You would not want to lose control of that monster,amazing piece of kit 😮

Yes this crane looks a little more substantial. When I saw that first crane I thought they don't know what they're doing. I was a crane operator with local number 3.

Right on that was a nice video

I beg to differ, Im sure there are much smaller crane barges quite capable of dealing with the bridge wreckage. It will surely be cut into manageable pieces by acetalyn torch and thus removed.

Glad to see some of the ships can move in and out of the port. That's a nice big crane ship. ❤

This is is absolutely crazy. look at the tiny staircases on the tub cranes. Also look uo photos of people next to the crane hook. it's amazing!

My grandson would love to have a lego of that.

Perrrrfect pick ship up in one swoop in Baltimore...

Damn!!!, who 's the captain of that gargantuan? A big God Bless U.

It's insane that humans made this thing.

That's got it's own weather and area codes.

aid huge crain on the east coast,

They might need this crane in Baltimore?

I like the sound of the wildlife

Wow this is a crane 😄

To the rescue! That has it's own zip code! 😎🇺🇲

Holy Cow .... that's big

Thanks for the great morning. Just what I needed.

Wow so cool bro 😮

Heerema in vol heerlijkheid😊

For those of you who follow Old Norse mythology, Sleipnir was the name given to Odin's 8 legged horse. Sleipnir was the son of Loki. Interesting read for those interested, found here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir.

a true monster of it's class

WOW! That is a HUGE crane ship!

This needs to be in Baltimore, MD

Channel going up to Baltimore is probably not deep enough for this monster. Would have to dredge 24x7 for weeks to get it through.

Cheers.