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Lifting works at second wooden bridge highway A7 Sneek, Netherlands by Wagenborg Nedlift
Highway A7 is already under construction for a while. Back in 2008, a remarkably designed wooden bridge was placed across the highway. A few days ago, the assembly works for a new wooden bridge, the second one, took place. A nice piece of lifting works, carried out by 6 heavy mobile cranes: 2 times 200 tons crane, one 250 tons crane, one 300 tons crane and 2 times a 500 tons crane. Together, they carefully placed the wooden bows of each 120 tons on the (wooden!) bridge deck. A precise piece of work, everything has to fit exactly. The crane operators were a real team working together very closely, which resulted in a smooth lifting operation and of course some nice pictures of all red/white cranes. During the night of 20/21 November, the complete bridge of 320 tons will be placed onto foundation. 192 wheels of SPMT trailers will be used to realize this next challenge.
Please find more information about the A7 Sneek project at www.a7sneek.nl
This Huisman PMOC (Pedestal Mounted Offshore Crane was loaded in Sviadnov CZ and transported by road to Schiedam, The Netherlands (approx. 12oo kms)
Dimensions of cargo: 20,00 x 4,88 x 4,40 105 ton
Overall dimensions of transport combination: (L x W x H) = 37,00 x 4,88 x 4,47 190 ton
Wagenborg Nedlift
Transport and lifting works at Moerdijk, Holland
At the site of Essent’s new powerplant in Moerdijk, Wagenborg Nedlift has been quite active with heavy equipment lately. First of all, the boiler modules of the new boiler unit were installed. With weights up to 243 ton per unit, Wagenborg Nedlift provided a 750 tons and a 350 tons crawler to do the job. Together with the Spanish construction company of the power plant, these lifting works were carried out completely according to schedule. In the meanwhile, a heavy transformer sailed from Korea to Moerdijk. It was a challenge to get this giant of 278 tons onto foundation. Wagenborg Nedlift’s hydraulic lifting gantry was perfect fit for the job and within hours, the transformer was put in place.
See pictures below:
JUMBO SHIPPING is loading an 800 ts Boiler in Mundra, India
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Some Heavy Transport executed in various parts of the world with Chinese manufactured platform trailers
The pick weight was 1,125 tons, with 50 tons of rigging hardware included. The Fagioli tower has a lifting capability of 2,000 tons, with the jacks configured for 1200 tons. Bechtel provided the tailing crane, a Demag CC 2800. The maximum load on the tailing crane was approximately 470 tons. Vessel erection commenced at approximately 07:00 am this morning and was on the anchor bolts at 3:00 pm. this afternoon. This is the first of three “tower lifts”. The other two vessel tower lifts will be approximately 740 tons and 575 tons and will be erected in December, once the vessels arrive on site.
The lifting towers are 54 m (177 feet) high and each beam at the top weighs 50 tons and is over 3 m (10 feet ) deep. The top of the tower with all the lifting gear is 61 m (200 feet) high. The total weight of the lifting beams and jacks at the top of the tower is 188 tons.
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WESTDIJK TRANSPORT B.V. , The Netherlands
Large Column transported on 22 axlelines of 3 m wide Goldhofer Platform trailer. Use of spirit level is essential on such a heavy and big transport, as stability is close to the limits
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Heavy Lift Transport in the UK
The nose of a UK Astute class nuclear submarine rolls through the streets of Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria. The first 7,000 ton behemoth will be launched in early June 2007.
Rotrans South Africa with large trafo on the way
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MAMMOET, South Africa
Trafo being transported by Mammoet South Africa
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VANGUARD, South Africa
Vanguard South Africa in action
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- Load-out onto Al Jaber Barge
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- Seafastening on barge
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- Loading on board of Jumbo’s “Fairpartner”
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- Placing the module onto foundation
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- Erection of a Flare Tower in Qatar
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- Erection of Flare Tower in Qatar
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- Erection of Flare Tower Qatar
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- Erection of Flare Tower Qatar
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- Erection of heavy Pressure vessel Train 5 Qatar
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- Erection of heavy pressure vessel Train 5 Qatar
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- Train 5 Qatar
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- Rotrans South Africa with large trafo on the way
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- Rotrans South Africa in action
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- Trafo being transported by Mammoet South Africa
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- Rotrans South Africa in action
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- Three Heavy Duty tractors + one in the back to negotiate 13% gradients
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- Large Column transported on 3 m wide Goldhofer Platform trailer. Use of spitit level is essential on such a heavy and big transport, as stability is close to the limits
Send me your pictures and Video shots of Heavy Transport & Lifting Projects and I will publish them on this page of my website.
Mail to Richard L.Krabbendam: The Heavy Lift Specialist
Here is the first project mailed to me
Qatargas takes “JUMBO” step towards new LNG terminal
Doha, Qatar, April 16 2009: Qatargas has taken a giant step towards completing a new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tanker berth at Ras Laffan with the arrival of a massive gas loading module on board the heavy-cargo ship, “Jumbo”.
The 875 tonnes topside module houses four LNG loading arms, pumps and other equipment, that allow LNG to be transferred from onshore storage tanks to tankers for shipping to overseas markets. The unit was built by Adyard in Abu Dhabi. When connected up as part of Ras Laffan Port’s new LNG Berth 6, it will be able to load 14,000 m3 of LNG per hour.
Construction of Berth 6 is being managed by the team working on the Qatargas 3 and Qatargas 4 LNG expansion projects.
Berth 6 Project Manager, Bertrand Boudier said: “I am very pleased that the topside module has arrived safely after its voyage from Abu Dhabi. It was safely completed in 14 months with 500,000 man hours without a lost time injury. Our work on site at Ras Laffan to complete the new 550 metres long abutment to which the tankers will moor is well on track to be ready by the first quarter of 2010.”
Load-out onto Al Jaber Barge
Loading on board of Jumbo's "Fairpartner"
Erection of Flare Tower Qatar
Erection of Flare Tower Qatar
Erection of Flare Tower in Qatar
Erection of a Flare Tower in Qatar
Erection of heavy Pressure vessel Train 5 Qatar
Erection of heavy pressure vessel Train 5 Qatar
Train 5 Qatar
Rotrans South Africa in action
Large Column transported on 22 axlelines of 3 m wide Goldhofer Platform trailer. Use of spirit level is essential on such a heavy and big transport combination, as stability is close to the limits
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WAGENBORG NEDLIFT, The Netherlands
Giant transformer on the way to Ens substation
The Tennet substation located in Ens, Netherlands has been expanded with one big transformer. Wagenborg Nedlift transported the 320 tons giant transformer from the fabrication yard in Nijmegen up to the foundation in Ens. The substation is extended due to increasing demand for electricity.
During several nights, Wagenborg Nedlift’s crew was busy to execute this extraordinary transport. Right through the inner city of Nijmegen, a railway passage was done. For this operation, the railway was blocked for a short time. Then the transport headed for quayside, were transhipment onto barge took place. Via inland water, the transformer reached the quay near site Ens. For the last 8,5 kilometers, highway N50 was used. The highway was closed for a while for other traffic during night hours. After this passage, the convoy headed for its final destination without any obstacles. Upon arrival at site, the transformer was installed on its foundation.
The complete transport project was prepared, engineered and executed within only 3 weeks. A fine piece of work from the Nedlift project team!
Terex Demag CC8800-Twin during testing in Germany
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WAGENBORG NEDLIFT, The Netherlands
Turbine transport to T-power Tessenderlo
Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but last Monday night, highway A13 near Tessenderlo was blocked (again) by Wagenborg Nedlift. An extraordinary transport of a turbine (312 tons), generator (342 tons) and transformer (200 tons) crossed the highway heading for new built Tpower Tessenderlo power plant.
A few days earlier, the heavy cargo up to 343 tons was discharged in Antwerp from seagoing vessel with floating crane Brabo onto river barges. Upon arrival at nearest quay, a roll-off operation took place with SPMTs and conventional trailers. Once rolled off, the convoy slowly moved to highway A13. At Monday night, A13 was closed for a few hours to let the unusual traffic pass. Early morning on Tuesday, the heavy pieces reached their final destination and were placed onto foundation inside the power train building.
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Claus C – under Construction
The construction site of Maasbracht Claus C powerplant is quite busy these days. An international community of German, Spanish and Dutch workers is busy with the construction of this unique extension project of Essent. This week, Wagenborg Nedlift, who executes the logistics of the heavy power train parts, had a milestone. The first power train was completely installed onto foundation. With barge transports, the heavy parts of 300 to 400 tons each were transported via river from Rotterdam to Maasbracht. Via a roll-off operation, the parts were brought on land. From there, SPMTs transported the items to the turbine building. With a skid system the cargo was offloaded from trailer and brought inside the turbine building. There a new challenge for the Wagenborg crew popped up: the narrow space for the installation works. Of course, a method statement was developed during project preparation phase: the skid system was installed on the existing foundation elements. Lowering the items onto their foundation was done easily that way and the complete power train was installed. The second train will be installed before the end of this year and the third one early 2010.
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Lift went off with minor issues. Was on my way out and took a few pictures from the roof of the hotel…one attached. Just a tad over 1000 metric tons on the hook…..It is the walls of the Reactor, Steam Generators and Pressurizer compartments. Hollow walls and we will fill them with concrete once it is in final position……and we install about 300 more embed plates.
