SPECIALISED TRANSPORT Ӏ SECTOR REPORT


Huge wind turbines are going up all over the world to generate power sustainably. Moving their long and heavy components to remote and mountain-top sites is a challenge and an opportunity for heavy transport specialists. Julian Champkin reports.


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Looking about the landscape, in Europe and elsewhere, it is hard to avoid noticing the sudden proliferation of windfarms; and with it is has come the need to transport the components to build them. Their rotors, in particular, have to be carried


along often narrow and winding roads to their erection site which, by the nature of windfarms, is likely to be remote – often at the top of mountains and reachable only by roads that are steep, narrow, and winding. Given that rotor sizes are increasing all the time


– 30-plus metres long is now standard for onshore wind, with offshore installations considerably larger still – and that blades must be transported in one piece as a single unit, this is by no means simple. Specialised transport companies, though, have been rising to the challenge. Belgian heavy-load specialist P. Adams, for example, has acquired three rotor blade transport systems (RBTS) from Tii Scheuerle. The forwarding company specialises in wind turbines, and its new RBTS are intended to handle the longest rotor blades on the market. f


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