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Substructures arrive in Melbourne
T
uscor Lloyds recently moved two huge underwater
substructures for Subsea Structures for use in Australia’s
offshore oil and gas fields. The cargo, weighing 23.7 tonnes,
left Aberdeen just before Christmas destined for Melbourne, Australia.
“This freight was so large we actually had to charter a vessel to
get the cargo from Scotland to Zeebrugge,” said Nick Rodriguez of
Tuscor Lloyds, “amazingly this went very smoothly. The client
arranged his own transport to the ship’s side, the sea was calm, and
we craned the pieces with no problems onto the vessel.”
“As the cargo came to mainland Europe, the weather started to
deteriorate. We ended up unloading the cargo in a blizzard, but
managed to get it onto the second vessel we had chosen bound for
One of the underwater substructures on its way to Australia.
Australia just in time,” he added.
Plastics machinery delivered to Poland
Jack-up sets
A
dvance International
Mumbai record
Transport has recently
worked on a major project Om Projects, a division of Om Freight
freight management contract on Forwarders Pvt. Ltd, has handled a
behalf of Mitsubishi Heavy huge piece of project cargo, weighing
Industries (MHI), shipping more than 1,000 tonnes, at Mumbai
thousands of tonnes of port, India.
machinery and material to Om Projects said the unit, a
support the construction of the jack-up platform weighing
first purified terephthalic acid 1,005 tonnes, is the biggest of its
(PTA) plant in Poland. kind to move through the
The multimillion dollar Maharashtra port. The cargo
complex has been designed by belongs to AFCONS, one of the
MHI, which is supplying the most forwarder’s longstanding clients.
important items of equipment to Including export and import
PKN Orlen, Poland’s largest oil cargo, the total volume of cargo
refining and petrochemical handled in the project was nearly
company. PKN Orlen has been 50,000 cu m.
responsible for developing the Om Freight Forwarders is an
facility, which is at Wloclawek, integrated logistics solutions
160 km from Warsaw. provider, offering door-to-door
Advance International is co- services across five continents.
ordinating movements by road,
Advance International transports part of the machinery for manufacturing plastics in Poland.
Established for over 45 years, the
rail and barge. The total weight company has its own offices in
of material and imported India, China, Singapore and Europe.
machinery exceeds from Antwerp. At 176 tonnes, the Netherlands, France, Italy,
370,000 tonnes, including more the dryer shell was the heaviest South Korea, the UK, the USA,
than 250 individual shipments of item carried. All nine items were and other countries. or by sea, while other items are
over-dimensional and transported to the site of the new Commenting on the project, arriving by air at Warsaw airport.
heavyweight items. facility by barge or pontoon. Jawad Kamel, Advance This project, like others we have
Advance has overseen the PTA is used in the International’s president and undertaken for MHI, clearly
shipment and discharge at the manufacture of polyethylene chief executive, said: “We are demonstrates how the modern
port of Gdansk of nine terephthalate (PET) plastic bringing the majority of the construction industry is a truly
over-dimensional cargoes bottles used for water and soft freight consignments through global affair, and that project
destined for the new facility. drinks. The main machinery and Gdansk, using inland waterways forwarders such as Advance
These included a slurry heater, equipment for the project for delivery of some must be willing and able to work
dryer gas scrubber and dryer originates in Japan, while consignments to the plant site. on a global basis.”
shell, which had been shipped ancillary equipment is being Some material is being brought ●For more on Poland, turn to
on SAL’s heavy lift vessel Wilma brought from Germany, Belgium, from Western Europe overland page 105.
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