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moving everything from satellites and launch vehicles to engines and helicopters.” Volga-Dnepr has also


seen continued demand for maintaining existing infrastructure projects and for fast-response deliveries to replace equipment. The long- term opportunities in the oil and gas market also appear to be heading towards a more positive outlook. “A few projects have passed final investment decision status for which we have already started communicating with the main parties and project forwarders,” said Kraynov. Project cargo is a specialized


usually results in a major boost for their project because they need the cargo to be delivered quickly.”


Unique Requirements


Project cargoes are interesting and challenging because of their unique requirements. Volga- Dnepr participated in a liquefied natural gas project in Papua, New Guinea, which took five years of planning. “Part of this was acting as consultants for a new airport that had to be built,” said Kraynov. “For this project, we then completed an intensive flying program of 88 flights in


the units,” said Andre Grikitis, Intermarine’s operating chairman. “As a result this job required loading and lashing plans and CAD designs.” The coke drums were discharged to barges in New Orleans, with Intermarine responsible for arranging the barge location and placing the units in the perfect position onboard. Hawaii’s growing population


has spawned a variety of projects. “New housing


developments on Oahu are creating new infrastructure projects, and old infrastructure around hotel zones are adding capacity and renewing the older facilities,” Pasha said. “A light rail system is under construction to assist in transporting folks to and from work across the island.” Starting last year the first


rail cars for the Hawaii Rapid Transit Authority project arrived in Honolulu.


The rail


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cars come from Italy with final assembly performed by Hitachi in Pittsburg, CA. From Pittsburg, Triple R Transportation receives the rail cars by rolling them on the steel wheels from rail to their specialized highway trailer rails. “This


low riding 120-foot


trailer is the only one of its kind capable of efficiently linking the Hitachi factory in Pittsburg with our vessel in San Diego,” said Pasha. The rail cars are transferred


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to Pasha’s roll trailers or MAFIs by rolling the car from the trailer via bridge rails to the rails on the MAFI trailers. They are then chained down and subsequently loaded onto Jean Anne for transit to Honolulu. Upon arrival in Honolulu the rail cars are rolled from MAFI back to specialized highway trailer for delivery to the rail station. The bridge rails were built to


be a stable platform linking the two trailers. “The height and


“We may have hit rock bottom and are now starting to see an uptick in the general freight market.”


--Brent Berg, Thorco Projects


field in which some operators play in narrower sub- specialties. Pasha Hawaii, as its name suggests, specializes in shipments to and from the U.S. mainland and Hawaii. “There is a steady stream of infrastructure projects fueling transportation needs of heavy equipment and materials,” said Michael Pasha, director of oversize cargo at Pasha Hawaii. “The demand on our service over the last three years has seen a steady increase of about 3% year over year.” Project


carriers are not


limited to ocean shipping and Volga-Dnepr Airlines carries its share of projects in the skies. “Our specialists oſten produce solutions that the customer didn’t think was possible by airfreight,” said Kraynov.


“This


103 days carrying 6,000 tons of cargo.” Intermarine, LLC, a project,


breakbulk, and heavyliſt carrier, transported four coke drums on the MV Ocean Freedom from Gijon, Spain, to New Orleans last year. The cargo units measured 34.4-by-8-by-8.2 meters and weighed 333 metric tons each. The MV Ocean Freedom was selected due to the vessel’s ability to move items via single crane and/or tandem liſt. The holds of the vessel also allowed for below deck stowage, providing further protection of the cargo. “The dimensions of the cargo


provided limited options for lashing and s ecurin g points on


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