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WORLDWIDE HEAVY TRANSPORTATION AND LIFTING
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SIEMENS AWARDS UK BRANCH
WITH £43M FOUR-YEAR CRANE
FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
Siemens has awarded a four-year ‘Crane Framework Agreement’
to ALE for the supply and deployment of cranes, specialised
transport equipment and personnel.
The contract is for the period 2016-19, and has a value in
excess of £43m (55m Euros). It covers Siemens’ harbour-based
offshore wind sites in the UK and Germany, and fulfils the
requirements of Siemens’ offshore logistics concept, presented
in 2015.
The work involves onshore heavy lifting, transport and
pre-assembly for offshore wind operations. The contract is
effective from the beginning of June 2016. ALE equipment and
staff will be used in the handling and pre-assembly of imported
towers, nacelles and blades to be used on the Dudgeon offshore
wind park. Where possible, a Ro-Ro process is used, instead
of lifting. This method provides more safety and cost efficiency
when it comes to moving up-to-75-metre-long rotor blades, and
nacelles weighing around 360t.
Clark MacFarlane, Managing Director, Wind Power Division
at Siemens plc, said: “Given the high proportion of the work
covered by this contract that will take place in the UK, we
are delighted to be able to appoint a British supplier with an
international reputation in this field. This contract is a great step
for our development in Hull and the offshore industry in the UK
which is committed to growing the content of offshore wind
farms that is made in the UK.”
ALE has also signed a separate contract with Deugro for the
transportation scope. This involves the loading and unloading
of complete turbine assemblies (nacelles and tower
components) using SPMTs from Denmark to the various
assembly sites in Europe and the UK, including Hull, Sasnitz,
Great Yarmouth and Belfast.
The first offshore wind power plant to benefit from the
newly-constructed Hull harbour will be the Dudgeon project
off the Norfolk coast. The Dudgeon wind farm will comprise
67 of Siemens’ 6 MW offshore wind turbines; with an overall
capacity of 402 MW, Dudgeon will provide clean power to
more than 410,000 UK households.
ALE JACK-UP
TRIUMPHS WITH
ENERGY AWARD WIN
ALE has jointly won the
‘Best Energy Project’ award
for its collaboration when
undertaking jack-up and
roll-up operations in Suffolk,
UK, by the East of England Energy Group (EEEG) Awards 2016.
Along with the client and the designers of the suction buckets,
ALE won the award as part of the Dudgeon offshore wind farm
project in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Richard Mason, Projects and Engineering Development Manager
for ALE, said: “This project really showcased how innovation is at
the forefront of our business, using one of a kind equipment as
well as creative engineering to solve a complex scope consisting
of multiple operations.”
ALE OPENS NEW BRANCH IN ITALY
ALE is pleased to announce the opening of a new branch in
Milan, Italy. This is the first branch the global heavylift and
transportation specialists have opened in the country.
This will be ALE’s eleventh branch in Europe and will help
expand business development worldwide.
ALE will be able to target clients working in traditional sectors,
such as power generation, ports, civil, nuclear, offshore,
renewables, oil, gas and petrochemical, and shipyards with
engineering, heavy transportation and lifting services.
Alberto Pittaluga, Managing Director of ALE’s Italy branch, said:
We have been operating in Europe for many years.
We wanted to set up a branch in Milan so we could focus on
assisting the Italian industry working
MILAN
across countries where ALE executes
heavy lifting and heavy transport
activities.
“We have appointed a dedicated team
ITALY
led by Paolo Arfani, who can utilise
our global network of specialised
experience and equipment to
maximise the business development
opportunities. This is an exciting
time for ALE and we look forward to
expanding our services to the Italian
industry internationally.”
ALE’S UK BRANCH LEAD THE
WAY WITH ISO 9001 AND 14001
CERTIFICATIONS
ALE’s UK branch has achieved ISO 9001:2015
and ISO 14001:2015 which certifies that we work to
and meets the requirements of the latest global environment and
quality standards, performing and operating best practice across
the UK businesses. This makes ALE one of the first UK businesses
to receive this certification since it was introduced in 2015.
Darren Adams, Director – UK, said: “As a company, we had
until 2018 to implement and get certified. By achieving this
within six months of the standards being released, this shows
that we are leaders in setting the standards for our people and
management systems.”
HSQE
ALE LEAD THE WAY AS FIRST TO ACHIEVE COMBINED
DNV GL CERTIFICATION
ALE are the first global heavylifting and transportation company to achieve
DNV GL certification for the scope of ISO 9001: 2015, ISO 14001:20015
and OHSAS 18001:2007.
ALE has recently invested in its safety and quality process, with the
introduction of new process systems such as Cofano and Synergi.
By investing in our assurance portfolio, ALE has aligned its implementation of
the ISO standards to the requirements of DNV GL.
Pierre De Villiers, Global HSQE Manager, said: “For ALE, the management of
health, safety, quality and environment is paramount; we take an integrated
and risk-based approached towards HSQE to ensure we meet and exceed our
stakeholders’ expectations.
We have recently invested in process-based and risk-based software which
aligns itself with DNV GL and their strict requirements. It is great to have broken
the seal as the first global company in the heavylifting industry to have achieved
this combined scope of certification; it gives confidence in our capabilities for
our clients and sets the bar for others in the industry.”
DNV GL, specialists in the oil and gas sector, maintain a safety critical focus
and operate risk-based auditing.
ALE ARE CROWNED INTERNATIONAL SAFETY
MANAGEMENT AWARD WINNERS
ALE is proud to announce that we have been awarded an
International Safety Management Award from the International
Safety Quality Environment Management Association (ISQEM)
a United Kingdom-based professional association.
This latest award is in recognition of ALE’s commitment to
keeping its workers and workplaces healthy and safe. ALE
provided their End Of Year report, an overview of the new
systems which have been introduced, along with statistics of
the reduction in incident rates and equipment damage costs in
order for the ISQEM to judge ALE as the business with the best
improvement of health and safety culture and performance over
the last 12 months.
ALE ENGINEER PRESENTED
WITH SMARTER SAFER
STRONGER AWARD
ALE’s Australia branch has awarded Stefano Tiani
with the Smarter, Safer, Stronger award.
Stefano, who has been working with ALE since
2012 as Senior Project Engineer firstly in the
Netherlands then Australia, is currently working
on the ongoing Ichthys Onshore LNG Project
in Darwin. Stefano was nominated by Paul Kelly,
Director – Australia, for his innovative design
of the rigging arrangement whilst lifting two
pre-assembled cryogenic tank platforms on
top of the LNG tanks, in addition to his
leadership onsite.
The Smarter, Safer, Stronger award is an internal
employee award scheme in Australia, that was
launched in February 2015 to recognise the
efforts of individuals
and teams, as well
as identify when
ALE employees
demonstrate any
of the company’s
core values and
go above and
beyond what
is requested for the
business and the
community.
SAFETY SHINES THROUGH AL.SK190 CRANE PROJECT
ALE, who are currently working on the STAR project in Turkey, has set up the
safety awards for the project. After Manuspong Maneejak won the first STAR
safety award in May, Foreman Adrian Costea is the next crew member to win the
STAR project safety award. Adrian Costea, who joined ALE seven years ago was
presented with the safety award by Marcos Lapaz Gomez, ALE’s Project Engineer.
The internal awards were set up by ALE and their working partners IZMIR VINC,
to congratulate and reward crew members working on the landmark project in
Izmir, Turkey. Adrian was awarded the certificate and safety accessories for his
complete safety awareness whilst operating the SPMTs on the project.
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The Chairman of ISQEM Wayne Harris congratulated ALE on its
success. “The International Safety Management Awards reflects
the importance of aiming for good standards of occupational
health and safety at work. ALE should rightly be proud of its
achievement. Congratulations.”
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