Based in Asia. Filming the World.

Offshore Heavy Transport AS is a Norwegian oil service company which owns unique vessels which are suitable for dry transportation of offshore drilling rigs and offshore modules. The company is the second largest heavy lift vessel owner in the world and presently owns and operates four semi-submersible heavy lift vessels. 

The group owns four heavy lift vessels, Eagle, Falcon, Osprey and Hawk. The ships are owned by single purpose limited companies.

All of the company’s vessels are former tanker vessels that have been converted into heavy lift vessels. The conversion of the former aframax tankers Eagle and Falcon was carried out at Gdansk Shiprepair Yard Remontowa S.A. in Poland, and included significant steel works in addition to a general upgrading of the vessels. The conversion of the former suezmax tankers Osprey and Hawk has been carried out at Huarun Dadong Dockyard Co. Ltd. in China, and involved the construction of a new mid-ship section purpose built for heavy lift operations.

These dramatic images of the  Heavylift Hawk were taken in Jan 2009 as the ship transported a load of port cranes northwards up the Straits of Malacca. Offshore Heavy Transport now regularly uses the photographs generated by this company to promote the capabilities of its vessels worldwide.