Hansa Meyer USA handled two LNG storage tanks each measuring 36m x 5m x 5m and weighing 135mt from Decin, Czech Republic to a private discharge terminal in Everett, Massachusetts. This was a turn-key job from door to "set on foundation" including shimming.
Hansa Meyer USA handled approximately 3000 FRT from multiple origins in Asia and Europe to North Dakota. The above 95mt LP tank was one of two for this project. The weather was perfect for the discharge. However, due to ferocious winter weather conditions along the route, the team was challenged with road closures and white-out conditions in route to North Dakota.
It takes large scale generators and rotors to capture and produce 195 megawatts of hydroelectric power. Hansa Meyer USA managed a five part charter of approximately 3,500mt. The shipments included two generator sets each 50mt and two rotors each 205mt that were successfully delivered to the port for our customer. The project is being constructed and ultimately operated by Altagas in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Once the plant is on-line it will have the installed capacity of 195MW, enough to power 70,000 homes.
Ballmills
are used in the rock or mineral grinding process. When we were contracted to transport this second hand one from
Australia to a mining operation in Zacatecas State, Mexico, we had to deal with
shell sections from Northern Australia, mill heads from Victoria and
gear/mechanical components from Western Australia.
Due
to the lack of liner service from Darwin, we trans-shipped the 20’ diameter
shells over Singapore and Houston from where they were delivered by truck
crossing in Laredo.
Our
Mexico City office arranged the delivery into the mining operation from
Veracruz and Altamira ports.
Most
of us like challenges. But, when the Alabama meltshop project notified us that
they had ordered furnace covers measuring over 30’ wide from Monterrey, Mexico,
close to the US border, but far away from any navigable water, some serious
head-scratching started!
Thankfully,
a detailed road survey to the Gulf coast revealed a relatively open route to
the Port of Altamira. The biggest obstacle being numerous toll booths which
either had to be bypassed or moved.
With
a lot size of 1,800 cbm total, a geared vessel was chartered on a direct voyage
basis to the port of Mobile. Again, due to the size of the cargo, a deck barge
and tug were mobilized from Louisiana to make delivery to the plant’s river
terminal.
Hansa
Meyer’s Mexico City office offered valuable support in bringing this job to a
successful conclusion.
Challenges:
Routing due to the extreme width; tight delivery schedule
You
might recall the cargo of cooling stacks we referred to in the previous
newsletter. This 116 MT transformer was another crucial item to the project
completion.HMGT USA with the help of
our Bremen colleagues, handled this shipment using liner service from Rotterdam
to Mobile, AL.
Due
to the need to rig for a 1 hook lift, “Big AL” was hired to come up river for
the discharge from the barge to the SPMT.
Challenges:
Low
water in the German River system – coordinating the vessel booking and direct
transfer from river to ocean vessel in Rotterdam.
Hansa Meyer USA with the help of our global colleagues, handled multiple shipments of major components for a clean coal power station in Mississippi, USA. Hansa Meyer delivered 3,030 frt including 44 packages break bulk from Shanghai via New Orleans to Mississippi, 8 containers from Germany, and 19 containers from China. The clean coal power station will capture 65% of total emissions resulting in 3.5 million tons per year. Hansa Meyer delivered the Circular Stacker Reclaimer (above) and Main Housing (below) to Kemper County, Mississippi for our customer. The main housing was rotated changing the width to the height, enabling a more direct OTR routing.
