Offshore

Doors, platforms and cargo lifts

Technical information

ROV hangar door

Side and stern door
Mooring platform/door

Reliable solutions for operations in

extreme environments
High sea states demand special design considerations and MacGregor equipment has been specifically
developed to fulfil rigorous operational requirements to support the offshore sector. We supply doors and
platforms for ROV, OSV, multi-purpose, dive support and construction vessels.
Innovative offshore solutions
Over the years MacGregor has designed
numerous bow, side, stern and bulkhead
doors, platforms and stern ramps for
RoPax ferries, RoRo freight and naval
vessels.
Drawing on the expertise of designing
watertight equipment for the marine
industry, MacGregor has developed
technology to support the offshore
sector.

Doors
We supply weathertight access doors
for remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)
and offshore service vessels (OSV).
These vessels regularly operate in extreme environments such as the North
Sea, where heavy weather is common
and operational continuity essential.
ROV hangar doors must be able to operate in high sea-states and cope with
the effects of wind and wave slamming.
Door design is therefore absolutely
critical to ensure sustained functionality.
MacGregor door design is reliable, safe
and secure and of well-proven
structural integrity, particularly in
respect to high sea loads. They retain
weathertightness when closed and
secured, and a combination of operating systems are available using
hydraulic cylinders or hydraulic motors.
Doors can be partially opened, to provide
operator protection, or fully opened
depending upon the end users operational requirements. We ensure that your
door will meet your needs in terms of
quality, efficiency, security and overall
economy. Yet it will be standardised in all
major functions.
You will be supplied with well-proven,
reliable equipment which is easy to repair in the event of an accident and easy
to maintain for long-term trouble-free
operation. We believe in high quality in
every respect.

Top hinged hydraulic folding door and lower side sliding ROV hangar door on offshore
construction vessel BOA DEEP C.

Door type and size

In order to establish the type and size of
door, we require information about the
purpose of the door and drawings of the
ship, surrounding the door area.
Doors typically are arranged in one or
two sections, top hinged, side sliding
or side hinging. Doors are hydraulically
operated, secured and designed according to Classification Society rules and
regulations. Three measurements are
vital for the planning: the height between
the decks, the depth of the shell girders
and the door clear opening (fig. 1).
Designs may cater to various Launchand-recovery systems (LARS) operational
requirements, for example providing a
completely unrestricted hangar opening
or, with the lower section in place,
forming a partially protective bulwark.

as an integrated system with main and

remotely-operated controls that operate
both the opening/closing of the doors
and the moving in/out of the LARS.
We offer a full range of overside,
moonpool-based or telescopic launchand-recovery systems.

Clear width

Clear
height

Complete packages with

integrated LARS system
MacGregor can supply Launch-andrecovery systems (LARS) for ROV/Ts
coupled with weathertight access doors

Height
between
the decks

Depth of the
shell girders

Fig. 1

Side and bow doors

Top hinged, hydralic folding door and a lower

side sliding door on Multi-purpose, Inspection,
Maintenance and Repair (IMR) vessel
NORMAND MERMAID.

Side hinged ROV hangar door, an overside

Launch-and-recovery system (LARS) and a
150-tonne active heave-compensated knuckle
jib crane on ROVSV vessel FUGRO SALTIRE.

Lower side hinged bow door, an upper side hinged bow door, a sliding
bow cover, side hinged pipe hatches and the pipe hatch coaming for
Pipelayer vessel AUDACIA.

Side sliding hydraulic ROV doors, bulkhead

hydraulic sliding door and an electrically
operated Moon pool top hatch on subsea
support vessel SUBSEA VIKING.

Hydraulic folding door on Sea Bed Logging vessel BOA THALASSA.

Mooring platform/door
Where a vessel has a high bulwark or
large bow flare, difficulties may occur
for the crew to be able to safely observe
and monitor the mooring operations.
MacGregor has developed a solution by
provision of a door installed forward,
integrated into the ships side, to be
used as a mooring or observation
platform, easily operated by one person.
Personnel can access the platform to get
a better view of the mooring process.
In the closed position, the unit forms a
non-watertight door flush with the hull
shape and flare of the vessels bow.
In the open position it is folded down
and supported by preventer stays,
providing a platform. The platform is
hydraulically operated, secured and
designed according to Classification
Society rules and regulations.

Mooring platforms/doors on seismic

Polarcus vessel POLARCUS NADIA.

Mooring platform/door on cruise ferry

COLOR MAGIC.

Stern door

The stern door normally functions as a

weathertight door. The door is side
sliding, acting as an opening, and has a
built-in slipway, designed for launching
a rescue boat.

Cargo lift

Primarily intended for transportation of

pallets or general cargo between decks,
the cargo lift is designed to suit the
required lifting height between decks.
Optional watertight doors may be
provided depending upon access
location.

Stern door and side opening hatch covers on Rapid response rescue vessel STRIL POSEIDON.
The stern door is side sliding and top hinged, sealed between the panels and at the top,
and has a built-in slipway. A Fast Rescue Daughter Craft (FRDC) can enter the mother
vessel and be deployed from the slipway.

Steel structure quality

The MacGregor equipment is designed as
a flat top plate and open web construction to meet the demands for torsional
strength due to the movements of the
hull or heel of the ship. High tensile steel
is used as standard.
Statnett Transport

Quality of fittings
Shafts and pins exposed to the weather
are of stainless steel. Main hinges and
cylinders are fitted with spherical
bearings.

The stern ramp on special purpose RoRo

vessel ELEKTRON is fitted into a frame that
can be lowered down on to the deck. Each
of the ramp sections can be operated
individually to suit different quay heights.

Cargo lift for pallets 2.0 tonnes Safe

Working Load (SWL) on the seismographic
research vessel RAMFORM CHALLENGER.

Sealing and securing quality

MacGregors engineers have spared no
effort in developing an efficient and
secure watertight seal. The result is a
simple but high-performance design.
A rubber packing is placed in and around
the perimeter of the opening of the hull
and is pressed against compression bars
made of stainless steel. These have a
very smooth surface to guard against any
penetration of water.
There are two types of seal design as
standard (fig. 2 and 3). When the equipment requires sealing without a sill,
a sliding packing design is chosen. This
allows relatively large racking deflection
of the opening. In all other cases a
conventional design is used.
The equipment is secured in the closed
watertight position by hydraulically
operated securing devices of well-proven
design (fig. 4). They are well-proven
innovations which can be relied upon.

Safety quality
Being the market leader, MacGregor
is invited by national authorities and
classification societies to use its expertise,
gained from numerous installations, to
develop and evaluate new rules and
regulations.
Your MacGregor equipment will incorporate a number of items of safety
equipment regulated by classification
societies and authorities. Indication
lamps on the operating and bridge panels
energise to confirm the equipment is
closed and secured.
Custom designed load control valves are
normally fitted directly on the cylinders.
This will prevent the door from any
uncontrolled movement in the event of
hydraulic or electrical failure. Only high
quality components of marine design
from recognised suppliers are used in our
equipment.

Rubber
packing
Compression
bar

Fig. 2: Conventional door seal design

Rubber
packing

Compression
bar

Fig. 3: Sliding door seal design

Fig. 4: Bolt cleat for top-hinged doors

MacGregor is the worlds leading brand of engineering solutions and services for handling
marine cargoes and offshore loads. MacGregor products serve the maritime transportation,
offshore and naval logistics markets, in ports and terminals as well as on board ships. Our cargo
flow solutions integrate cargo access, stowage, care and handling functions to suit a particular
ships cargo profile. This benefits its productivity, environmental impact and profitable service
lifetime.
MacGregor is part of Cargotec. Cargotecs class B shared are quoted on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.
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