Lee & Muirhead moves a 409 metric tonne turbine generator from Chennai to Odisha using multimodal logistics. The land transport for the first time was accomplished on a Goldhofer Faktor 5 girder bridge.
Toshiba JSW Power Systems Pvt Ltd has 3 packages to be transported of 800 MW supercritical turbine generator with overall dimensions of 10.31 x 5.928 x 4.65 Mtrs. and gross weight of 409 MT to NTPC Darlipali from Chennai. This was the heaviest package for this project. Considering 144 bridges along the route which had to be crossed safely, the logistics had to be planned very carefully by a leading haulage operator - Lee & Muirhead Pvt Ltd.
The heavy lift experts of both Toshiba and their logistics partner Lee & Muirhead conducted a feasibility study and decided the optimum route to the project site. While self propelled barges were used for sea transport, girder bridge and hydraulic axle combination was used for road transport. The girder bridge distributes concentrated load on longer area and hence is suitable for crossing long span bridges safely.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Maritime Gateway.
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