TransportMarkt 11/12-2000
European Heavy Lift Group
Giant tower by low bed trailer, heavy lift carrier and barge
Joint operation of EHLG partners from Finnland to USA
Intermodal handling of very heavy pieces had been proved smoothly by handling a 170 tons absorption tower of close to 49 m length from Pietarsaari, North-West Finland to Texas. The entire operation has been ordered by the German plant exporter, i.e. engineering design company for chemical and large size plants, i.e. Krupp-Uhde GmbH, Dortmund, from Rolf Riedl GmbH based in Hagen acting as main contractor.
The absorption tower leaving supplier's works in Northern Finland on two five axle and eight axle pivoted bogies
Intermodal handling of very heavy pieces had been proved smoothly by handling a 170 tons absorption tower of close to 49 m length from Pietarsaari, North-West Finland to Texas. The entire operation has been ordered by the German plant exporter, i.e. engineering design company for chemical and large size plants, i.e. Krupp-Uhde GmbH, Dortmund, from Rolf Riedl GmbH based in Hagen acting as main contractor.
As partners of the operation Rolf Riedl GmbH involved its Bremen daughter company "Transgerma" Riedl & Kiehntopf GmbH for part chartering the Dutch heavy-lift carrier m.v. "Snoekgracht" and seaborne transport operation and EHLG member Finn Heavy Project OY, Helsinki for operation of pre-carriage from sub-supplier's works to the port of Pietarsaari (Jacobstad) including handling of the piece in the port of shipment. According to initial planning the absorption tower measuring 48.60 x 5.01 x 5.16 metres should have been shipped through the southern Finnish port of Mäntyluoto. After intensive investigations of transport and loading conditions by Messrs. Rolf D. Riedl, Jürgen Brunne?, managing director of Finn Heavy Project OY, and Helmut Bödeker, senior shipping coordinator of Krupp Uhde GmbH, the Finnish supplier could be convinced that a smooth and scheduling operation could be realised by shipment through Pietarsaari. Accordingly contract conditions had been altered to ex works with re-routing from fob Mäntyluoto to fob Pietarsaari. The Riedl team arranged pre-haulage in coordination with the German customer and the Finnish supplier by commissioning low-bed swivelling bogies of five and eight axles, respectively. Within the works the tower of almost 50 m length was raised up in vertical position for easy underdriving by the bogies, raising the piece hydraulically and carrying it to the loading quay.
Intuitive feeling was required from board crane drivers to handle the 50 m long tower between two of the three decks cranes onto the ship's flash deck.
On the snow-covered road from the works to the port of Pietarsaari.
Transport on the 3 km roadway to harbour had been hampered mid November already by heavy snow fall and about 10 cm snow covering the North Finnish roads. On the quay the transport unit had to be positioned at 7 m distance to quay wall and ship in order to enable secure handling of the abnormal load between the two port side deck cranes. M.v. "Snoekgracht" of the "S" class of Spliethoff is equipped with three board cranes of 120 tons capacity each of which two had been in operation to handle to absorption tower Part-charter and shipment had been contracted between Transgerma and Spliethoff on the condition "Last call in/first call out" ruling that any other loading operations of the ship on European side on this voyage had to be completed before loading the absorption tower in Pietarsaari as last European port of call, while discharging the piece in Texas port of Orange as first port of discharge. In accordance with supply conditions "free loaded on pontoon alongside ship at port of destination" the 170 tons piece was discharged meanwhile in the port of Orange on a pontoon-barge. Positioning on the barge deck was arranged on stillages enabling the absorption tower to be raised up hydraulically by a low-bed trailer rolling the piece off the barge at an inland harbour quay and hauling it to adjacent Sabine River Work of E.l. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. at Orange. Time schedule and technical operation had been carried out exactly in accordance with the order.
Turning operation on the pivoted bogies on the quay.
The 170 tons absorption tower on its four moulded sattles is carefully lowered onto the flash deck of the Dutch heavy lift vessel.
Giant tower by low bed trailer, heavy lift carrier and barge
Joint operation of EHLG partners from Finnland to USA
The absorption tower leaving supplier's works in Northern Finland on two five axle and eight axle pivoted bogies
Intermodal handling of very heavy pieces had been proved smoothly by handling a 170 tons absorption tower of close to 49 m length from Pietarsaari, North-West Finland to Texas. The entire operation has been ordered by the German plant exporter, i.e. engineering design company for chemical and large size plants, i.e. Krupp-Uhde GmbH, Dortmund, from Rolf Riedl GmbH based in Hagen acting as main contractor.
As partners of the operation Rolf Riedl GmbH involved its Bremen daughter company "Transgerma" Riedl & Kiehntopf GmbH for part chartering the Dutch heavy-lift carrier m.v. "Snoekgracht" and seaborne transport operation and EHLG member Finn Heavy Project OY, Helsinki for operation of pre-carriage from sub-supplier's works to the port of Pietarsaari (Jacobstad) including handling of the piece in the port of shipment. According to initial planning the absorption tower measuring 48.60 x 5.01 x 5.16 metres should have been shipped through the southern Finnish port of Mäntyluoto. After intensive investigations of transport and loading conditions by Messrs. Rolf D. Riedl, Jürgen Brunne?, managing director of Finn Heavy Project OY, and Helmut Bödeker, senior shipping coordinator of Krupp Uhde GmbH, the Finnish supplier could be convinced that a smooth and scheduling operation could be realised by shipment through Pietarsaari. Accordingly contract conditions had been altered to ex works with re-routing from fob Mäntyluoto to fob Pietarsaari. The Riedl team arranged pre-haulage in coordination with the German customer and the Finnish supplier by commissioning low-bed swivelling bogies of five and eight axles, respectively. Within the works the tower of almost 50 m length was raised up in vertical position for easy underdriving by the bogies, raising the piece hydraulically and carrying it to the loading quay.
Intuitive feeling was required from board crane drivers to handle the 50 m long tower between two of the three decks cranes onto the ship's flash deck.
On the snow-covered road from the works to the port of Pietarsaari.
Transport on the 3 km roadway to harbour had been hampered mid November already by heavy snow fall and about 10 cm snow covering the North Finnish roads. On the quay the transport unit had to be positioned at 7 m distance to quay wall and ship in order to enable secure handling of the abnormal load between the two port side deck cranes. M.v. "Snoekgracht" of the "S" class of Spliethoff is equipped with three board cranes of 120 tons capacity each of which two had been in operation to handle to absorption tower Part-charter and shipment had been contracted between Transgerma and Spliethoff on the condition "Last call in/first call out" ruling that any other loading operations of the ship on European side on this voyage had to be completed before loading the absorption tower in Pietarsaari as last European port of call, while discharging the piece in Texas port of Orange as first port of discharge. In accordance with supply conditions "free loaded on pontoon alongside ship at port of destination" the 170 tons piece was discharged meanwhile in the port of Orange on a pontoon-barge. Positioning on the barge deck was arranged on stillages enabling the absorption tower to be raised up hydraulically by a low-bed trailer rolling the piece off the barge at an inland harbour quay and hauling it to adjacent Sabine River Work of E.l. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. at Orange. Time schedule and technical operation had been carried out exactly in accordance with the order.
Turning operation on the pivoted bogies on the quay.
The 170 tons absorption tower on its four moulded sattles is carefully lowered onto the flash deck of the Dutch heavy lift vessel.