InterviewHeavy transport woes in Germany have continued throughout 2023, bordering on a full-blown crisis. Things are unlikely to change anytime soon unless there is an extensive system overhaul.Read more
A 20te Talgo railcar has hit the British motorway, as Allelys brought the unit, measuring 13.7 metres in length, from Barrow Hill Railway Roundhouse in Chesterfield to the Global Centre of Rail Excellence in Onllwyn....Read more
Van der Vlist has recently handled the transport and installation of a flight simulator in Poland. The sim will be used to keep up with the training and recertification of pilots. By simulating certain kinds of...Read more
Allelys recently transported two 239-tonne transformers, each measuring 12.3 meters, from Buckie Harbour, Banffshire to Moray West Onshore Converter Station.Read more
UK’s abnormal loads specialist Allelys have had another heavy generator on their hands recently. The company moved a steam turbine generator weighing 176-te, measuring 14 metres long, 4.8 metres wide and 4.5 metres high, to...Read more
Two evaporators have been taken on a journey across Finland through a route totalling 664 kilometres before embarking on their journey to Sweden and Uruguay. The road section of the journey was handled by the Finnish...Read more
Rhenus expands activities in silo road-transportation by acquiring the Nederlandse Transport Maatschappij (NTM) transportation company this month.Read more
The connection between Rail Service Center Rotterdam (RSC) and Rotterdam Shortsea Terminals (RST) has been upgraded, in collaboration with Samskip.Read more
The Alexandria-based transportation and logistics company, Egyptian Global Logistics, transported a 175 MVA transformer between two sites in El-Alamein, Egypt.Read more
The Oregon-based company Omega Morgan handled the transportation of four adsorber vessels from the Port of Vancouver, in Washington, to North Plains, in Oregon.Read more
Mammoet transported a 390 metric tonne, 750 MVA transformer 270 kilometres from the Hitachi Energy facility in Ludvika to an Ellevio wind farm in Tovåsen, Ljusdal municipality. This is the heaviest transport ever to take...Read more
Seven reactors were shipped from Algeciras in Spain to Houston Texas. Noatum Project Cargo contracted Mammoet to transport the reactors from the ship to the final 11 kilometres to the project site: an ethylene to...Read more
The Cargo-partner Turkish team handled the transport of three oversized pieces of cargo from Aydın, Turkey to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.Read more
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group has been tagged by Airbus to transport A220 components from the production plant in Shenyang, China to the final assembly plant in Mirabel, Canada. Leaning on its experience in transporting A380,...Read more
Project LogisticsBertling Logistics has shipped an oversized Nitrogen Generation Package from The Netherlands to China. Successfully solving a last-minute challenge, the project was completed through a combined approach of Bertling’s Bremen, China and Singapore office.Read more
Special transportAbnormal load specialist Collett has delivered an almost 150-year-old Victorian clock tower from Elland in West Yorkshire to Ripon in North Yorkshire. It’s the second time Collett is moving this rare piece, although the last...Read more
Transport companies and trade associations are relieved that the border between England and France is reopening for freight traffic. However, it will take days before all the trucks that have accumulated on the British side...Read more
Road transportThe British Heavy Transport Association (HTA) has launched the first of a series of projects that investigate the movement of abnormal indivisible loads. The aim is to analyse good practice from the UK and elsewhere...Read more
Collett has completed the delivery of all 128 components for the Inverclyde wind farm in Scotland, consisting of eight Enercon E82 wind turbines, each featuring 39-metre long blades and 69-metre high towers.Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Megalift has transported an oversized oil and gas pressure vessel from the fabricator’s yard in Kemaman in the state of Terengganu to Petronas’s chemical plant in Gebeng in the state of Pahang,...Read more