Patent ID: 8745801

Claim:
A gangway construction for providing access between a vessel and an offshore object, comprising: a support frame mounted to either one of the vessel and the offshore object; a guiding assembly provided on a guiding part of the support frame; a longitudinal gangway movably guided over the guiding assembly in a longitudinal direction relative to the frame; characterized in that, the guiding assembly comprises at least a first subassembly having: an upper and lower pulley wheel mounted rotatable to either one of the frame and the gangway with their axis of rotation positioned at a vertical distance from each other; and a first cable connected to the other one of the frame and the gangway with one cable end fixedly connected at a forward connecting position lying at a front side of the pulley wheels and with the other cable end fixedly connected at a backward connecting position at a back side of the pulley wheels and with the cable extending in the longitudinal direction between the forward and backward connecting positions along at least part of said other one of the frame and the gangway, with the first cable, seen in said longitudinal direction, extending from its forward connecting position towards the lower pulley wheel, being guided along at least part of the back side of the circumference of the lower pulley wheel and over at least part of the front side of the circumference of the upper pulley wheel, and from the upper pulley wheel extending towards its backward connecting position.