Subsea Baskets
From small tooling, to over 20Te pipeline recovery, the Motive Subsea Basket range is one of the most comprehensive available in the industry - from small tooling baskets and seabed debris recovery baskets, to large pipeline recovery baskets capable of retrieving up to 23-tonne payload.
Designed to allow the transport of tools and equipment to decommissioning jobs, our baskets are built to withstand harsh subsea environments, fully fabricated and tested in-house.

Subsea Baskets
Up to 23Te
Subsea Baskets can retrieve payloads of up to 23 tonnes. Designed to transport tools and equipment for decommissioning and subsea operations, each basket is built to withstand harsh subsea environments and is fully fabricated and tested in-house.
Subsea Baskets
Dimensions (External – height to top of bail arm): L1660mm x W1660mm x H1762mm
Rated Payload Capacity: 5Te
Tare Weight: 500kg
Gross Weight: Approx. 5,500kg
Lifting Arrangement: 4-point lifting
Forklift Pockets: Yes
N.B. All weights/dimensions represented are for illustrative purposes
Dimensions (External – height to top of bail arm): L2407mm x W1907mm x H2984mm
Rated Payload Capacity: 5Te
Tare Weight: 1,500kg
Gross Weight: 6,500kg
Lifting Arrangement: 4-point lifting
Forklift Pockets: Yes
N.B. All weights/dimensions represented are for illustrative purposes
Dimensions (External): L6095mm x W2438mm x H1556mm
Rated Payload Capacity: 7.5Te
Tare Weight: 3000kg
Gross Weight: 10,500kg
Lifting Arrangement: 4-point lifting
Forklift Pockets: Yes
N.B. All weights/dimensions represented are for illustrative purposes
Dimensions (External – height to top of bail arm): L10500mm x W2557mm x H1811mm
Rated Payload Capacity: 14.5Te
Tare Weight: 5,000kg
Gross Weight: 19,500kg
Lifting Arrangement: 4-point lifting
Forklift Pockets: Yes
N.B. All weights/dimensions represented are for illustrative purposes
Dimensions (External): L13411mm x W2845mm x H1854mm
Rated Payload Capacity: 23Te
Tare Weight: 10,000kg
Gross Weight: 33,000kg
Lifting Arrangement: 4-point lifting
Forklift Pockets: Yes
N.B. All weights/dimensions represented are for illustrative purposes
Dimensions (External): L7734mm x W2624mm x H2025mm
Rated Payload Capacity: 14.8Te
Tare Weight: 500kg
Gross Weight: 6,689kg
Lifting Arrangement: 4-point lifting
Forklift Pockets: Yes
N.B. All weights/dimensions represented are for illustrative purposes
FAQs
We maintain a global rental fleet across strategic bases in the UK, Norway, UAE, USA, Brazil, Singapore, and Taiwan. Depending on the equipment type and project destination, we can often mobilise within 24-48 hours for standard packages.
All Motive equipment is designed and manufactured in-house to meet global offshore standards with full traceability to component level and is CE/UKCA marked accordingly. Full certification packages are provided with every delivery.
Absolutely - Every rental is backed by a dedicated onshore project manager who serves as your single point of contact, ensuring smooth logistics, technical planning, and mobilisation. Additionally, we provide multi-disciplined, offshore-certified technicians for on-site installation, commissioning, and 24/7/365 operational support to ensure maximum uptime during your campaign.
Yes - While we have a standard product line, our in-house design and engineering teams specialise in custom-built winches, tensioners, and specialist marine and lifting equipment tailored to specific project footprints and load requirements. Our spreads are specifically engineered to meet the needs of any vessel with a focus on compact footprints and reduced sea-fastening requirements, ensuring a versatile and straightforward integration that transforms your available deck space into a high-performance offshore asset.
Yes - We provide a complete turnkey service for our rental fleet, ensuring equipment is not just delivered to the quayside, but fully integrated onto your vessel. Our multi-disciplinary teams manage the entire process, including deck layouts, installations, and commissioning to guarantee that every rental spread is sea-fastened and operational to the highest safety standards before departure.
In addition to our rental support, Motive Manufacturing provides these same comprehensive vessel services for client-owned assets, offering professional vessel mobilisations/demobilisations, structural sea-fastening, and critical repairs.
Yes - our Manufacturing division provides a full repair, maintenance, and overhaul service for client-owned offshore and back-deck equipment. Our focus is on design-for-sustainability, while our full-scale refurbishment service supports repurposing of assets to extend lifecyle, ensuring equipment remains compliant and efficient while actively reducing raw material demand, lowering embodied carbon, and diverting assets from disposal.
We offer comprehensive services, including Wire Rope Inspection (MRT), NDT (Non-Destructive Testing), Hose Integrity Management, Load Testing, and full Lifting Gear Examinations to ensure equipment remains compliant and safe.
Motive is redefining offshore service delivery through an integrated, circular operating model that reduces project emissions, extends asset lifecycles, and enables clients to meet accelerating net-zero targets. Our innovation lies in redesigning how onshore and offshore services are delivered, by integrating rentals, manufacturing, and certification into a coordinated delivery model that reduces multi-vendor interfaces, project complexity, and associated emissions.
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