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to the port required removal of obstacles, arrangement of permits and police escorts, levelling and compacting of pinchpoints, power and telephone cable lifting, and trailer technical checks and regular equipment maintenance,” Riley outlined. “To meet the ground-bearing capacity of the route, hydraulic axles were used to ensure adequate load distribution. Additional trailers were shipped from the USA, and deugro imported transport beams from the UAE and Asia to ensure sufficient support of the cargo saddles during transportation and offload at the jobsite.” Loading and unloading All units except the C3 tower were loaded at Kuantan Port by tandem lift using the vessel’s cranes. In order to position the 338-tonne C2 tower and the 600-tonne quench water tower on board, a crane boom support had to be temporarily removed. After safe arrival at the Phu My construction jetty, most of the components were stored at the Customs area before on-carriage. “While saving time and costs, this also increased flexibility in the delivery schedule of components in accordance with the construction site’s required sequences,” Riley pointed out. The cargo was moved to the construction site’s dressing area with self-propelled modular transporters (SPMT) and hydraulic trailers. The trailer configuration for the huge C3 tower required a reduction in the gradient of several areas of the jobsite. Lampposts and fences had to be removed, and several areas were reinforced to ensure the components could cross various underground services safely. In particular, said Riley: “The pipe rack area on the construction site was extremely tight for manoeuvrability, needing detailed inspections and engineering to design a safe transport path.” “The road around the pipe rack was compacted and levelled to provide the needed turning radius. Movement during the rainy season meant some site areas were waterlogged, needing civil works to be completed along with pumps and drainage to be installed so that the area adequately dried.”
deugro’s fl exibility and coordination were paramount in moving over 280,000 freight tons of petrochemical equipment to a petrochemical plant construction site in Vietnam while COVID-19 restrictions were in force, as recognised by the BIFA Project Forwarding Award 2022 Manoeuvring a 100 m C3 tower on a project construction jetty in Vietnam Coordinating the complex “ The safe movement of the components
F reight forwarder and project logistics specialist deugro arranged no less than 155 breakbulk shipments of critical oversized and heavy lift (OSHL)components, totalling 178,287 freight tons, on 55 heavy lift vessels that travelled a combined distance to Vietnam of more than 213,000 nautical miles. In all, the contract covered over 1,400 breakbulk, container and air freight shipments arriving at the petrochemical plant construction site from 30 points of origin. deugro faced numerous challenges in completing this complex project – not least, the widespread, ever-changing Covid- 19 restrictions in place at the time, which created a “dynamic” project logistics landscape with sudden schedule changes, noted Mark Riley, deugro UK branch manager. Other difficulties included high freight rates and severely limited vessel capacity. The only way to surmount such obstacles was through close collaboration between deugro’s project lead office and branches in 16 countries. The most challenging OSHL components, weighing over 778tonnes each and nearly 100 m
from the Kuantan yard to the port required removal of obstacles, arrangement of permits and police escorts
long, had to be moved from Malaysia to Vietnam at a time when suitable vessels were in short supply. deugro managed to contract six semi-submersible heavy lift ro-ro multipurpose dry cargo vessels, strengthened for heavy cargo. The 800-tonne, 93 m long C3 tower was transported by road 6km from the fabrication yard to Kuantan Port. The overland journey took 11 hours to complete. “The safe movement of the components from the Kuantan yard
– Mark Riley, deugro
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