Heavy transport news
As the industry grows, the wind turbines are becoming larger, blades are longer and tower sections are growing in diameter. As a result, the base towers of these turbines have…
Allelys have successfully completed the transport and installation of a 113te reactor for Frodsham substation. The reactor, measuring 6.5m (l) x 2.7m (w) x 4m (h) was received at Immingham port…
Sarens has been involved in the load-in, load-out, transport, and storage of several monopiles and transition pieces for the St. Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm since January 2021. The work is…
Collett & Sons Ltd and Bristol’s Plant Speed have agreed a deal which will see their specialist wind turbine equipment join the Collett fleet. Taking the decision to remove themselves…
Mar-Train Heavy Haulage Ltd, based outside Lisburn in Northern Ireland, has recently taken a delivery of Goldhofer STHP-ET 12 (5+7) heavy-duty combination with the redesigned RA 2-110 tower clamp system…
AAL Shipping recently delivered 456-metric-tonne industrial tower components to the US West Coast. The cargo was loaded in South Korea onboard the 31,000-deadweight heavy lift AAL Pusan and transported across…
With more than 40 years of experience, Bok Seng Logistics PTE LTD Singapore has recently decided to invest in a transport solution from Goldhofer for the first time in the…
C.H. Robinson Project Logistics has recently completed a nine-month project involving multiple ocean shipments of oversized cargo from Portugal to the USA. First, they utilized out-of-gauge flat racks and open-top…
In June 2021, the Collett Teams began transporting components for 9 Vestas V117 turbines from King George V Dock. Each of the components for each complete turbine; the three tower…
Faymonville and the company Prangl have been cooperating for years in the area of vehicle technology for special and heavy transport. When it comes to wind power, the Austrian transport…
Approximately 35km-60km off the coast of Taiwan’s Changhua County, the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a Offshore Wind Farms are being constructed as part of Taiwan’s transition towards renewable energy use.…
Khimji Ramdas Projects & Logistics Group recently delivered a total of 4,119cbm of cargo for a factory plant extension in Sohar Free Zone. The project consisted of 6 x OOG…
Antonov Airlines in cooperation with Bollore Logistics Space has transported Turkey’s new telecommunication satellite Turksat 5B on board one of its AN-124-100 aircraft from Toulouse, France, to Florida, USA, later launched…
Megalift has recently handled the shipping of a 86tn gas turbine from Sweden to Malaysia. The SGT700 gas turbine, with dimensions: 13.54 x 5.34 x 4.01m, was shipped from the…
Portuguese specialised transport company LASO Transportes SA recently acquired two MultiMAX semi-trailers to solve their missions for the transport of railway vehicles. The semi-trailers have incorporated rail guides in the…
Just before Christmas, Actitrans Overseas moved by air a 13tn freight from Paris to Las Vegas for the installation of the Las Vegas Tower. Actitrans Director, Hugues Mayeur, explained: “The…
Allelys recently completed the delivery of two 199te rotors and two 62te stators for Keith Substation in Scotland. The components were delivered in two phases, two months apart with one…
PT LV Logistics has set a new domestic record for the Indonesian heavy haul industry with the delivery of RFCC plant components to the Balikpapan refinery in East Kalimantan using …
Mammoet has been awarded the contract for the transportation of an 1800-ton reactor for the new PC ORLEN Lietuva facility in North-west Lithuania. Come August 2023, the 100-meter-long, 6.5-meter-wide and…
Van der Vlist recently transported two tanks of nearly 6,00 diameter and 24.500 kgs each from the North of Spain to Poland on a gearless charter vessel. Arriving at the…
P. Schwandner Logistik + Transport GmbH has added a number of new Goldhofer transportation solutions to its special vehicle fleet. That includes three »BLADES« trailers for the transportation of turbine…
Freja Transport & Logistics recently handled two project transports involving railway machines. In the first, the locomotive, which was over 40m long and 4m high, was transported from Denmark to…
Mammoet assisted its customer, Capital Power with an emergency stator replacement at the Genesee Generating Station, located southwest of Edmonton, Alberta. The first challenge faced by the project team was…
ANTONOV Company via its agent Antonov Logistics SALIS GmbH has been awarded a five-year contract with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to continue working…
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