Heavy transport equipment – Move it magazine

8th September 20218th September 2021

Record time delivery with Goldhofer

On the cconstruction site for the Dos Bocas Refinery in Tabasco, Mexico, the heavy haul company Pesado Transport moved precast concrete pipe racks to their final locations. In addition to the typical obstacles and confined space for maneuvering of any construction site, the changeable weather conditions of the coastal location near the port of Dos …

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16th July 202116th July 2021

Osprey deploys new technology

The Bristol-headquartered Osprey Group, which specialises in finding innovative ways to transport abnormally heavy and large items across land and sea, now stores project imagery and documents in a Canto digital asset management (DAM) library. Cloud-based, the software allows team members and photographers in the field to capture and store files and photography for commercial …

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7th July 20217th July 2021

Sarens loads-out the biggest and the heaviest furnace modules in the world

Sarens SPMTs and half-split SPMTs maneuvered the world’s biggest and heaviest cracking furnace modules based on modularisation design and construction in the world at the Penglai Jutal Offshore Engineering Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. – PJOE Yard in Penglai, China. The two furnace modules had to be transported and loaded-out at the PJOE Yard. Each furnace …

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7th July 20217th July 2021

Three moves in three days

Edwards Moving & Rigging relied on two six-axle ADDrive combinations from Goldhofer to complete three moves in three days. The scope of work was the transport of three rotors weighing 308,686 pounds each from a rail siding into the turbine bay of a nuclear plant in the southeastern region of the U.S. In addition to …

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21st June 202121st June 2021

Mega transport with Goldhofer in South Florida

Edwards Moving & Rigging was awarded the contract to transport two turbines and generators weighing 317t - 430t (698,865lbs – 947,988lbs) in Fort Lauderdale to a power plant approximately 19km (12 miles) away. This involved picking up the cargo from a barge and transporting it over regular highways to the power plant. The big challenge …

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11th June 202111th June 2021

Historic move in Mozambique

For an offshore project in the South of Africa, Fymonville’s CombiMAX modular trailer combinations took on an important function for the supply of materials weighing tons. Large components for a gas project arrived in Mozambique and were partly stored in Maputo. 12 km of chains and their steel baskets weighing up to 150 tons and more …

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4th June 20214th June 2021

Express Global Logistics handles 182 railway coaches

Express Global Logistics (EXG) have secured a contract to handle 182 Railway Coaches and 4 Driving Power Cars (DPCs) for a India-Sri Lanka Railway Project. The cargo will total 45,000frt with the coaches ranging from 36-80mt each and dimensions of 20.30 x 2.95 x 4.00m. They are to be exported to Sri Lanka for a …

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3rd June 20213rd June 2021

Mammoet launches two floating drydocks via float-off operation in Saudi Arabia

Built at Zamil Shipyard in the port of Dammam, two floating drydocks, intended for maintenance and repair works of naval crafts in Saudi Arabia, are being commissioned by Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN), a French naval ship design and construction company. Mammoet’s Saudi Arabia branch was contracted by CMN to launch the drydocks via float-off …

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31st May 202131st May 2021

KGE Baltic transports heavy valves in Kazakhstan

KGE Baltic were recently invited by their regular customer to transport two very heavy valves for the mining industry to be delivered to the end user at the KAZ Minerals site in Aktogay, Kazakhstan, via customs in Astana. Each of the 2 units had a weight of 75,000kg and dimensions of 440 x 215 x …

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27th May 202127th May 2021

Specialist Trailer Hire hands over first »STEPSTAR« from Goldhofer

The UK-based Specialist Trailer Hire Ltd. handed over the first 4-axle Goldhofer »STEPSTAR« to its customer Quinto Crane & Plant Ltd. The 4-axle «STEPSTAR« is single extendable and is equipped with 2 foldable hydraulic ramps, which allow a low ramp angle. This makes the trailer ideally suited for any transport of movable work machines, even …

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