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Mammoet partnership with Spanish heavy transport specialists Arbegui and Transmodal announced, with the aim to strengthen its presence in the fast-growing Spanish market. As strong market growth in the manufacturing and construction sectors drives a surge in heavy lift and transport ...
Mammoet has completed its first dragline relocation project in Australia. The dragline, weighing 2990 metric tons, was jacked up and transported 99 kilometres on SPMTs overcoming a variety of obstacles on the way. Using experience from similar projects in the USA, Mammoet’s team safely ...
The special transport division of the Capelle Group, based in Vezenobres, France, has placed an order with Faymonville for 28 semi-trailers from the TeleMAX, MultiMAX, MegaMAX and VarioMAX product range. The company has worked with Faymonville for more than 20 years and employs around 600 ...
For walkers and winter visitors, there are two ways to ride up to the summit of the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain – from the Tyrolean side in Austria or from Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the cable car called the Bayerische Zugspitzbahn, where four new track ropes were installed in May and ...
Industry equipment moving specialist, Jozef Hermans Industrial Movers, based in Venlo, The Netherlands, has invested in an Enerpac SL300 telescopic hydraulic gantry for their worldwide heavy lifting and machinery moving business. The SL300 completes the company’s range of four Enerpac gantry ...
Over land and water, through parking lots and cornfields – Mammoet successfully delivers oversized vessel Mammoet recently completed a complex, multi-state and multi-modal transport of a process vessel from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Robinson, Illinois. Mammoet was contracted by an EPC company to ...
Potteries Heavy Haulage Ltd. of Stoke-on-Trent/GB, a specialist in international heavy and abnormal load haulage, has added a Goldhofer STZ-VP 2 wafer deck low loader to its ever-increasing trailer fleet. The choice was influenced by such factors as low deadweight and the short bogie and above ...
Timing is critical for rail construction projects to avoid unscheduled disruption to train and passenger services. However, the best project planning can be undermined by adverse weather conditions. High winds, greater than 12 mph, may prevent bridge deck lifting using a crane, leading to ...
Mammoet Russia safely completed the load-out of the offshore, ice-resistant, stationary platform LSP-2 onto a barge for its further transport to the Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea, Russia. The platform is intended for Phase 2 of the Vladimir Filanovsky field development project. The ...
Mammoet delivered the last wind turbine components for the extension of the Clyde Wind Farm situated near Abbington, Scotland. Energy supplier SSE is currently extending the existing 152 turbine wind farm with an additional 54 turbines. Mammoet was responsible for the transportation of all the ...
Enerpac Ultra-Flat cylinders series for those projects with small working space, starting at just 2.8cm, but large lifting requirements up to 1000 ton. The CULP-Series with lifting capacity 10 – 50 ton, and CUSP-Series 10 – 1000 ton, are designed for applications where high lifting forces are ...
Mammoet Russia performed the transport and installation of oversized components and metalwork units for the construction project of a delayed coker unit at JSC “Naftan” in Novopolotsk, Republic of Belarus. The work included five modules of preassembled metal works and two coke drums OJSC ...
• Sankyu transports bridge element in the Japanese city of Nagasaki and thus connects the old town to the reconstructed Dejima Island • Newly erected bridge acts as the main entrance to the historical trading post of Dejima The Japanese island of Dejima was a fan-shaped, artificial island in ...
Galt Transport has completed the final leg of the journey for Loch Lomond’s newest passenger cruise boat, the MV Lomond Monarch. The vessel, acquired by Cruise Loch Lomond started her journey in Loch Ness and has made her way through some of Scotland’s finest waterways to her new home on Loch ...
Mammoet successfully lifted and removed the historical 12th Street bridge from its foundation in Calgary. The bridge, built in 1908, spanned the Bow River and was removed due to its age and deteriorated condition. Weather delayed the original lift schedule, but when all cleared, the bridge was ...
Mammoet recently completed the transportation of a wind energy prototype for a repowering project at the Drantum II wind energy site near Drantum, Denmark. For this project, wind energy consortium Uhre Wind Power charged Mammoet with the transportation operations needed to get the old wind ...
With a total gross weight of 435.535 kilogram, a Caterpillar 6060FS has recently been transported in 35 pieces in a time frame of one week from the factory in Germany to the port of loading in Belgium. To transport all pieces in time, with the heaviest piece weighing 63 tonne, 16 separate loads ...
• Mammoet transports a 1,200 tonne bunker of the New Hollandic Waterline on 88 Scheuerle SPMT (Self-Propelled Modular Transporter) axle lines • With the help of the Scheuerle SPMTs, the bunker is transformed into a “Objet Trouvé” – an object which has been playfully placed at ...
The term ‘dream ship’ is part of the common jargon within the BigMove group. It refers to the 3-axle low bed semi-trailers delivered by the manufacturer Faymonville in 2007. It’s a success story that has now been continued. That’s because the 21 new extendable MegaMAX ...
During our longstanding business relationship with Claas, which has lasted for more than 35 years, we have transported a great number of their large agricultural machines, but we also offer transport solutions for their smaller machines such as balers and tractors. Our new combi trailers with a ...
With 140 Tonnes of deaerator vessel destined for Immingham Dock, South Yorkshire’s Charles Thompson Ltd appointed Collett & Sons to facilitate the route planning, transport and port agency services for the cumbersome 28m long cargo. Due to the size of the loaded vehicle our Team completed ...
Kahl Schwerlast GmbH from Moers (Germany) is one of the European specialists in the handling of demanding special and heavy lift projects. Thanks to the acquisition of two FlexMAX self-steering dolly combinations from Faymonville, the company can now expand its service range. Long and heavy – ...
RUD Chains Lashing Capacity 3000 to 32,000 daN RUD Chains is a leading manufacturer of lifting and lashing equipment that helps guarantee ultimate safety when lifting and lashing heavy loads. Their innovative Lashing Points help ensure maximum safety when transporting heavy machinery & ...
Goldhofer Aktiengesellschaft has delivered a second XLE low loader to the Stingel Group, which is headquartered in the Swabian town of Schwenningen. With its business units for Heavy Haul and Construction Material Recycling, the company is active throughout Germany. In keeping with the saying ...
Ashcourt Contracts of Kingston-upon-Hull has taken delivery of a flagship Volvo FH16-750 6×4 Heavy Haulage tractor unit and a 500hp Volvo FH 8×4 Tridem. The latter is equipped with a front-mounted Effer-685, eight section telescopic crane. The two trucks represent another step in the ...
ALE has designed and built a new self-propelled skid system, the SS800, with 800t capacity skid shoes. In total, 48 800t skid shoes, 12 83t push/pull units and 190 5m skid tracks have been built. The 800t capacity skid shoe is a logical choice for ALE after the build of the 150t, 300t, 500t, ...
Edinburgh based, Bernard Hunter Mobile Cranes Ltd has appointed Mr Mark Rafferty as Managing Director with effect from March 31st. 2017. Formerly employed as Contracts Director, Mark Rafferty has worked with the Gilmerton company since 2003 and succeeds his father Jim who has now moved into the ...
ALE is currently contributing to the trans-shipment operations of the Yamal LNG Project Modular Intermediate Storage Yard (MISY) at the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium. ALE’s scope on Yamal LNG project encompasses services for: – Load-in of modules shipped from Asian fabrication yards ...
Gulf Haulage Heavy Lift Co. transports Saudi Arabia`s first wind power plant on 36 Scheuerle SPMT axle lines Milestone for renewable energies in oil-rich Saudi Arabia SPMTs from Scheuerle recently made a substantial contribution in the creation of a very historic moment. In the Saudi Arabian ...
We’ve added two new Faymonville trailers to our fleet, one 2 axle MegaMAX and one 3 axle MultiMAX. Firstly the 2 axle MegaMAX semi-trailer with extremely low transport deck. Due to its super low loading height this provides the ideal solution for transporting tall loads or skid loading ...
