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Motion Compensated Gangway Design

Structural and mechanical design of motion compensated gangways: aluminium booms, elevator towers, cursors, base frames and W2W vessel integration.

Description

Vuyk engineers the structural and mechanical components of motion compensated gangways for offshore walk-to-work access, from concept design through production drawings.

Referenced projects include Ampelmann and SafeWay gangway systems.

Key features

  • Lightweight telescoping aluminium booms with movable counterweights
  • Elevator towers & travelling cursors
  • Base frames, hexapod structures and modular stackable bases
  • Steel components for composite-steel hybrid booms
  • Full vessel integration of W2W systems

Applications

  • Offshore wind and oil & gas walk-to-work access
  • Gangway OEMs and vessel owners integrating W2W systems

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