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AAL Antwerp generates interest in Port of Dover

[ August 27, 2025   //   ]

AAL Shipping’s new Super B-Class vessel AAL Antwerp  made a maiden call in Dover to deliver a 330-tonne transformer for National Grid’s Sellindge Substation in Kent.

The Dover-bound cargo was loaded in Taicang, China and, after a voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, Rotterdam and Cuxhaven she called in Dover for the delivery of the transformer and other components, before continuing to her final discharge port in Antwerp, Belgium.

Launched in 2024, AAL’s Super B-Class fleet consists of eight 32,000-deadweight tonne-heavy lift vessels. Each ship features over 90,000 cargo capacity, three heavy-lift cranes with tandem lifting capability of up to 700 or 800 tonnes. The Eco Deck system uses repositionable tween deck pontoons to extend open deck space to over 5,000 square metres.

Six Super B-Class vessels have already been delivered with the final two – AAL Newcastle and AAL Mumbai – due for delivery in 2026.

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