There was no margin for error when Cape Town based Cape Crating last week took on the task of securing a 70 ton piece of oil and gas equipment on a vessel destined for Korea. Not only were Cape Crating responsible for the safe transport of the cargo from the premises of the manufacturer Belmet Marine to the dock, they were also tasked with securing it in the hold for its voyage to a Korean shipyard, said Owen Bottomley, managing director of Cape Crating. This massive piece of equipment, known in layman’s terms as a ‘Christmas tree handling apparatus’, is used in the oil and gas industry where it is fitted in the moon pool of a drill ship.
