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This meant significant investment in heavy duty lifting and handling equipment such as the 110 tonne capacity straddle carrier, 45 tonne capacity ‘toplift’ container handler and various heavy duty FLT’s up to a 15 tonne capacity.
Significantly, the Straddle carrier has allowed cost effective handling of heavy and out-of-gauge cargoes to be stored and handled efficiently. Due to its dimensions and narrow foot print, this allows order picking of wind turbine components and efficient storage control.
Due to the Highways Agency policy for the transport of abnormal loads, by importing or exporting to or from the Port of Goole, in many cases, reduced the road mileage for heavy and out of gauge cargoes and therefore enabled the necessary road transport permits to be issued.
From a logistical position, Goole being centrally positioned for the UK and excellent access to the motorway network, Collett can serve the three main ports of the Humber estuary, being Hull Green Port, Immingham / Grimsby and Goole itself with ease.
Since 2008, besides being the natural export point for many out-of-gauge cargoes, Collett invested in the Goole depot to act as a strategic import point for on-shore wind turbines.
The Goole facility has successfully handled over 300 wind turbines through the depot since 2008, demonstrating the efficiency and expertise that has been created.
GRANGEMOUTH
More recently, due to logistical requirements and local demand a new depot has been added to serve Scotland. The port of Grangemouth was selected due to its East coast location, to assist with shortest shipping routes for mainland Europe and proximity to Scotland’s main strategic road network.
The philosophy and structure of the Grangemouth depot has been developed to mirror the success of the Goole operation. A heavy lift straddle carrier with 110 tonne capacity is now in place and functioning alongside heavy duty FLT’s and specialist trailer equipment, with the first wind farm project being carried out in February 2014. This saw the largest onshore wind turbines being shipped through the Port of Grangemouth and delivered by road to the Muirhall 2 wind farm in Lanarkshire.
The 3.4 megawatt turbines consisted of tower sections being upwards of 70 tonnes, nacelle components of 80 tonnes and rotor blades being 54.0 metres in length.
For the future, a number of Scottish wind farm projects are already earmarked to come through the Grangemouth facility for 2014 and 2015 consisting of over 80 turbines and counting.
ACCREDITATION AND IN-HOUSE TRAINING
Needless to say, with the pedigree that Collett have and the diverse operations that they offer, quality and service are of paramount importance in the company principles. This is clearly demonstrated in the ISO9001, 14001, 18001 accreditations that the company have. Furthermore the latest development of a registered in-house training centre at the Halifax depot mean that all employees are kept up to a high level of accreditation.
SPECIFICALLY GEARED UP FOR THE WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY Never more have the qualities and expertise of Collett been required in a cross-discipline environment such as the offshore wind energy market.
Collett have the skill and ‘know how’ to handle large turbine components and with the new megawatt generation of offshore turbines currently being developed, their use of heavy lift cranes, SMPT’s (self propelled modular transporters) and project management mean that the Humber estuary have ‘local expertise and content’ readily available.
Furthermore the Collett Marine divisions capabilities of ship husbandry, port handling, stevedoring and ship chartering experience, means that joined up thinking is a natural approach to logistical problems.
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