Transportation of ship’s sections, Birkenhead, UK

The ship was cut into sections inside a dry dock.  The fore-end section, weighing 3,800te, was then moved 40 metres along the dry dock using SPMTs to make room for a new mid-body section.  The mid-body section was lifted into the dry dock onto trailers. The section was carouselled using trailers then aligned with the aft-end of the ship.

Finally, the trailers were aligned to re-configure the fore-end section to the new mid body section.