USA-based Stevens Towing has been busy supporting the movement of cable reels and prototype wind turbine blades in recent months.
In its first project, the company’s heavy lift team was hired to handle two shipments of empty cable reels that had been delivered to Charleston, South Carolina, in June.
After reaching the delivery point, a Manitowoc 4100 ringer crane was used to unload the cable reels from the barge to the customer’s dock. A second shipment of 18 reels was received, with the same method being used to handle the cargoes.
Stevens Towing was also tasked with transporting a new prototype wind turbine blade from the port of Morehead City in North Carolina to Boston auto port terminal for energy equipment manufacturing and services company GE Vernova.
At 75.6 m long and weighing 18.8 tonnes, the piece was deemed too large to truck into the northeast, having already been hauled from New Mexico. Instead, it was delivered to the port of Morehead City where Metro Ports unloaded it from the truck with the help of All Crane’s Q.2 hydraulics crane.
The blade was transhiped onto the Stevens 2501 deck barge, and towed to Boston auto terminal. There, the blade was discharged back onto the truckand transported overland to its final destination.
