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This night, in pitch dark, the last module was lifted off. Just in time before rough weather is expected on this location. It appears quite normal to put modules with weights of about 3000 tonnes on a barge and transport them to the shore, but how do you take them off again? You'll need at least cranes with the same capacity as the Hermod. But there are other ways to do this. First option is the trailer version. The barge will be moored alongside the scrap yard quay and ballasted to quay level. Access will be made to the barge with heavy ramps for multi-axled trailers. Normally you will need six axles for 200 tonnes, so with these modules a lot more axles can be expected. These trailers will be placed under the module and special hydraulic rams on the trailers will lift the module. Once free of the sea fastening, the trailers will move very slowly over the ramps to the shore. With ballasting using her internal ballast system, the changing trim and draft of the barge will be constantly compensated. Once in place onshore, the rams will lower the module and the trailers can be removed from underneath the module and are ready for the next one. Unnecessary to explain that this is a Dutch patent and worldwide utilized for extreme transports. Second option is the skidding version. The modules are lifted hydraulically on greased beams and pulled and skidded tot the shore. But I prefer the thousand wheels option. Skidding is not new. The Egyptians already used the skidding technique when building their pyramids, so 2000 years later, we are supposed to use something more complicated, and at least, computer controlled.