CIMC Raffles Yantai ordered Liebherr Board Offshore Crane for oil and gas activity in Africa.

• BOS 2600 will be used in the BP Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Field off the coast of
  Mauritania and Senegal
• The maximum lifting capacity is 30 tonnes
• In 2020 Liebherr will deliver the crane from its production site in Rostock, Germany to the shipyard CIMC Raffles in Yantai, China who are performing the engineering, procurement and fabrication of the Jack Up accommodation platform.

Rostock (Germany), August 2019 – Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH together with CIMC Raffles signed a contract concerning the delivery of a board offshore crane, type BOS 2600. The company BP will use the crane for supply and maintenance tasks on its Jack Up accommodation platform next to the African west coast.

The BOS 2600 is a compact and function-orientated crane design within the well-knownLiebherr Offshore crane series and therefore the ideal solutions for platforms where space on deck is limited. “Because of the particular requirements of this project, we are pleased that CIMC Rafflesawarded us the contract for the project. With our product we have passed this challenge and fulfilled all contractual agreed specifications”, says Stefan Schneider, Area Sales Manager for Offshore Cranes. Further requirements for the crane are IECEx  certification requirements for outside-assembled parts. The BOS 2600 has a lattice boom with a maximum working outreach of 54,5 metres and is equipped with Liebherr Litronic, the company’s in-house developed control system which is the centrepiece for precise crane operations.