Basket Drive Systems

Instead of building a carousel with integrated drives at every storage position, the Basket Drive System separates the rotating machinery from the baskets. One self-propelled drive unit moves between positions across your storage floor, connecting to whichever basket needs spooling.

Your baskets become simple steel structures resting on support trestles. The drive unit does all the work.

The drive unit is remote-operated and travels on wheels between basket positions.

Connecting: The unit moves underneath a basket and extends locking pins upward to secure the connection. Once locked, the combined drive and basket rotates for cable spooling.

Releasing: After spooling, the drive unit lifts the basket approximately 100-200mm while support trestles are positioned underneath. The basket lowers onto the supports, the pins retract, and the drive moves to the next position.

Moving full baskets: Loaded baskets are relocated using a separate Basket Mover. The drive unit transports empty baskets but operates stationary during spooling.

A conventional storage yard has carousel drives at every position. Most of those drives sit idle most of the time, waiting for their basket's turn in the spooling sequence.

With BDS:

• One drive unit replaces the rotating machinery in multiple carousel positions
• Baskets become passive structures without drives, controls or power connections
• Expansion means adding baskets and trestles, not complete carousel systems
• All rotating machinery is concentrated in one unit for simpler maintenance

PASSER delivered the first operational Basket Drive System in 2016 for BP. The 6x450 tonne system was transported to Baku, Azerbaijan in 2020 and used for successful cable installation.

Competitors have published concepts, but we remain the only manufacturer with field-deployed systems.

• Works offshore and onshore
• Interface fits multiple baskets of customised size and payload
• Patented system design

Our Standard Baskets and Collapsible Baskets can be manufactured with the BDS interface, allowing you to add drive capability to existing fleets or plan for future deployment.

Baskets - Storage baskets compatible with the BDS interface

Production Carousels - Integrated carousel systems for production line applications

Our engineers can compare a drive-and-basket configuration against traditional carousels for your storage requirements and help you understand where the economics make sense.