Stevens Towing Company has delivered three pieces of tunnel boring equipment from Norfolk to Alexandria in Virginia, USA.
A 350-ton (226-tonnes) floating crane loaded the equipment onto a 61 m x 18 m inland deck barge. Once the cargo was secured on stands and beams, the barge began its journey up the Potomac River utilising Stevens Towing’s push boat Island Fox to a roll off location outside Alexandria.
At its final location, the equipment was rolled off by SPMTs and placed into storage.
USA-based Stevens Towing has been busy supporting the movement of cable reels and prototype wind turbine blades in recent months.
Stevens Towing partnered with Edwards Moving and Rigging and Crofton Diving to assist in the removal of a decommissioned nuclear reactor from the NS Savannah in Baltimore, USA.
USA-based Stevens Towing has delivered heavy and oversized cargoes for a paper mill in Macon, Georgia.
Mammoet has signed a contract with Buss Ports to marshal wind turbine foundations for two of Europe’s biggest offshore wind farm projects: RWE’s Nordseecluster A (Germany) and Thor (Denmark).
Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) played an instrumental role in the delivery of the European Southern Observatory ELT M5 mirror cell, which will be part of a gigantic observatory in South America.
Polish heavy lift contractor MS Industry used an Enerpac SBL1100 hydraulic gantry for the installation of transformers at the Baltic Power substation.
