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Issue 4 2021 - FBJNA


The Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Co. has developed from a traditional breakbulk cargo carrier to a professional heavy-lift and project- cargo carrier, according to Chipolbrok’s website. (Chipolbrok photo)


///PROJECT CARGO INSIGHTS


trains; history, as in the four- masted barque The Peking, launched in 1911 and now set to become the centerpiece of Hamburg’s German Port Museum, which opens in 2025. First, though, here’s a gem


By John Jeter


While the rest of the world struggles under


the weight


of the pandemic, the global supply chain’s heavy-


lifters—that is, the project


cargo carriers—appear to be sparkling, chugging along and even bringing some colorful


maritime history back to life. Let’s take these one at


a time: sparkling, as in diamonds; chugging, as in


of a project-cargo story … more or less related to gems. In April, BBC Chartering loaded nearly 375 metric tons’


worth of drilling towers, and cases and crates weighing some 50 metric tons, onto one of its vessels, the BBC Pearl. Sailing from Tallinn,


Estonia, the heavy-lift MPP vessel was expected to arrive in May in Cape Town, South Africa. There, the De Beers Group, one of the world’s oldest diamond mining and


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