ELECTRIC SPMT Ӏ SPECIALISED TRANSPORT
becoming cheaper and cheaper
and more mature. So we feel the best approach is to be using electricity on the site with small batteries in the machinery; and if you need additional power to use a power bank from the grid or from hydrogen or from whatever is available on site.” Before changing all their equipment to alternative power
there was a necessary first step: “We are still figuring out what the energy consumption of our equipment is, because we have never done that before,” says Bezuijen. “Usually you just pour in diesel and it works but now you have to really look into the energy consumption to determine what kind of battery you need in the machine or next to the machine. “We found the power
consumption of some of our operations was actually a bit lower than what we were expecting.” Power needs will depend, of
course, not only on the overall power consumption but also the pattern of consumption (slow but continuous or large but in bursts?) and the type of machine. The requirements for an electric car, for example, are very
VASTWIN BREAKS THREE WORLD RECORDS IN CHINA USING SCHEUERLE SPMTS
Three heavy-load logistics records were broken in China at the end of 2023. Engineering service provider Vastwin set three records: for transporting the heaviest and tallest building ever moved; moving it over the longest-ever distance; and overcoming the largest difference in height on the way. In China, historical buildings are frequently relocated to meet
environmental protection requirements. SPMT axle lines from Tii Scheuerle, a manufacturer of heavy-transport equipment headquartered in Pfedelbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, are regularly involved. This was the case when transporting a complex of five ancient
buildings from the Ningxia Saishang Jiangnan Museum located in the north of the country. The magnificent and valuable houses had to make way for the floodplain landscape scheme on the Yellow River. China Shipping Vastwin Project Logistic, a subsidiary of the state- owned China Ocean Shipping Group, was commissioned to move the five buildings, each one as a single entity, by a distance of 600 metres over a height difference of three metres.
The main building weighed 10,000 tonnes. There were also two outbuildings, each weighing 2,000 tonnes, plus an archway and a partition wall, each weighing 1,000 tonnes. For transporting the 43-metre-high, 36.9-metre-long and 31.5-metre-wide main building 300 Scheuerle SPMT axle lines and ten power pack units, also from Tii Scheuerle, were required. The heaviest individual transport weighed a total of 11,450 tonnes. The main building was the heaviest and tallest load that had ever been moved in China. In addition, it covered the longest distance ever covered in China
carrying a building weighing more than 1,000 tonnes. Furthermore, it was the steepest incline ever mastered along a
transport route. It was only a year ago that the Sinotrans Heavy-Lift Co. set a
record by moving a 7,500-tonne hotel using 254 SPMT axle lines (also from Tii Scheuerle). On that project the uneven weight distribution of the asymmetrical, 90-metre-long and 20-metre-high building posed a major challenge on the 500-metre-long route. Now even this achievement has been replaced by the triple record set here.
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