Liebherr’s innovative combined offshore and mobile harbour crane

Weighing 1,100 tonnes the combined offshore and mobile harbour has been assembled in the port of Baku, Azerbaijan for use in the construction of oil platforms in the Caspian Sea. 

According to a company statement the innovative TCC 14000-400 D Litronic^® can be used for two completely different types of application. As in Azerbaijan, it can be mounted on a floating installation (barge) and used as a rated offshore crane according to EN13852-2 requirements and able to lift heavy loads up to a maximum of 400 tonnes at an outreach of 21 m or 91 tonnes at 70 m. The maximum under hook height of the crane is 68 m.

Furthermore, thanks to its undercarriage, the crane can also operate onshore as a mobile harbour crane with high lifting capacities. For the undercarriage, the drive technology of a Liebherr mobile harbour crane was combined with a newly designed central X-shaped steel structure to which four outriggers are mounted. For travelling operation the base structure is fitted with 48 wheel sets from conventional Liebherr mobile harbour cranes.