If you've been following our Blog, Twitter tweets, and Linked-in updates, you know the Houston, TX team at Hansa Meyer Global Transport has had a busy summer. After trucking, storing and consolidating equipment from around the country to the Port of Houston and various lay-down sites, the team sucessfully loaded out 3 barges for a gas plant construction project. Barge 1 made its way through the US intracoastal waterway nearly 2,000 miles to the destination. The video below is a quick look at the first couple of pieces offloaded and taken to the plant. Barges 2 & 3 are right behind it with a goal of delivering all the plant equipment before the coming holidays. Dozens of truckloads are being delivered as well with on-site coordination.
The communication between all team members, our customer, fabricators, truckers, suppliers of all types, was executed with precision and attention to many, many details. All of the critical information pertaining to this project was available in real-time, via a cloud-based tracking application Hansa Meyer makes available to its clients.
Enjoy the short video and as always, your comments and feedback are welcomed.
Hansa Meyer Global Transport's Houston Team has had a very busy summer managing the heavy hauls and barges for a gas plant construction project in US. Scroll down through the blog site to find several related articles. The hard work is paying off as barge number 1 made the landing this week after a river journey of nearly 2,000 miles. With the barge site secure and the bridges in place, the equipment roll-off is underway. In the meantime, barges 2 & 3 have been loaded and have launched as well.
After nearly 2,000 miles the first of 3 barges pushes its way to the landing.
Looking from the stern towards the riverbank, a beautiful fall morning for a roll-off.
First piece to roll-off at the barge site that Hansa Meyer was commissioned to improve and make ready.
Roll-off from the barge site will continue for approximately three days.
The sequencing, scheduling and delivery of the equipment was tightly controlled by the team as many of the pieces were transported directly under hook for immediate positioning within plant. With barge number 1 on site and getting unloaded, barge numbers 2 & 3 are not far behind. Having only days between landings, the loading and departures on the following barges had to well planned and executed.
Barge number 2 loading out with more towers and processing skids
Every piece of equipment has had hours of transport engineering and planning before being loaded
Barge number 2 leaving the port on its way to the plant site nearly 2,000 miles up river
Barge number 3 being loaded with one of the heavier pieces for this transport
Barge number 3 pushing out of the port.
Check back periodically for more updates on this project and others. The team at Hansa Meyer Global Transport greatly appreciates our customers and the opportunities to work with them on so many amazing projects. We also enjoy sharing our stories with you. Your comments are welcomed and thanks for stopping at our site.
The Hansa Meyer Global US team introduced a 2014 LNG Plant Construction project to our blog followers back in April. It has been a busy summer for the team managing the consolidation of complex heavy loads from multiple domestic origins to the Port of Houston. This project update, as the title hints covers the layout, load out, and launch of the first of three barges that will make their way through the Intracoastal Waterway to the site.
As they say, "Measure Twice, Cut Once" our staff engineer developed the complex layout drawings.
Stands and Beams are placed on the deck according to the plan
While not the most fun to watch, the pre-load work is critical to the success of the project. Much time and effort goes into layout designs that consider weight distribution, balancing, as well as offloading, before the first piece of equipment is loaded on the deck. For this load 56 stands will be positioned bridged by 28 beams, with 76 welded D-rings and chain tensioners to lock the equipment into place. But then the fun starts with ten pieces of equipment positioned to load on the barge with a combined weight of over 1.6 million pounds!
Activity in the port doesn't stop after the sun goes down. With the help of flood lights the loading continues to ensure meeting the departure window.
With the Hansa Meyer Global Transport banner in place, the barge is ready to take the project equipment on a 2,000 mile voyage through America's Intracoastal Waterway.
One last picture as the 260' x 75' barge is pushed up river by an 1,800 horse power, steel tug, carrying 14,000 gallons of fuel. Bon Voyage...
Stay tuned as we have on-going civil work on site as well as two more barges to load. We appreciate you reading our blog. You comments are welcomed below.
The Hansa Meyer Global Transport, Houston-based, US team recently completed several shipments for their client building a natural gas processing plant in the Eagle Ford Shale Region of Southwest Texas. With equipment manufactured in New Prague, MN, Voorheesville, NY, New Iberia, LA, Midland, TX, and Santa Ana, CA, the coordination and communication throughout the project was critical. HMGT deployed a GPS tracking system on the super-loads giving the client near real-time updates. Working with our suppliers around the clock, the shipments were kept on track and arrived to the job site, on-time.
(Above) HMGT's in-house transport engineer was engaged early in the project to ensure permitting timeliness and uninterrupted transport. New saddles were designed and fabricated to transport the 90,000 gallon tank.
(Below) With the GPS tracking system in place, automated updates were sent to the system visible by our client via the internet, ensuring scheduling and on-site preparation were completed in time for the deliveries.
(Below) With the tank successfully delivered and placed on it's foundation, an HMGT managed skid delivery from Louisiana rolls into the plant construction site as planned and on-time.....
For Hansa Meyer US it wasn't just another day at the beach. The team was challenged with managing the transport of four 200+ ton transformers. Arriving in Newark, NJ after a voyage from Antwerp the first transload was made to a hopper barge. Due to the complicated route and size restrictions, the transformers were then transferred to 2 deck barges for transport to Seabrook, NH. At Seabrook a 140' bridge was erected for the roll off. Finally HMGT placed the transformers at location. A complex but very successful solution executed flawlessly. Enjoy a brief video and pictures of this great project. Your comments and feedback are welcomed.
The Hansa Meyer Global Houston team recently moved a 36 ton, 5 cylinder Mud Pump for their client in Texas. The pump was picked up at the client site using a winch truck, pulled onto the trailer, and taken to the Port of Houston for loading and shipping to China.
The Mud Pump is used to circulate drilling fluid while drilling and is considered the "heart" of the drilling system.
The pictures below show how a winch trailer pulls the unit on to the trailer bed.
Once on the trailer the unit was chained down and transported to the Port of Houston where it was loaded on to a vessel bound for China.
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