On May 18 Volga-Dnepr transported a 32 m-long rocket booster from Huntsville in Alabama to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA.
The rocket booster will be used on United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket, as part of NASA’s next Mars rover mission.
Volga-Dnepr also transported payload fairings and RD-180 engines for the mission.
Upon receiving the cargo, ULA moved the rocket into the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center for post-shipment checks. The launch is scheduled for July 17.
NASA’s Crawler-Transport 2 (CT-2) has moved the most powerful rocket ever built to the Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39C in preparation for its maiden launch around the Moon, which will take place no earlier than August 29.
The first jacket foundation for the USA’s largest offshore wind project, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), has been shipped from Port Esbjerg following its fabrication at the Danish port.
General cargo volumes have dipped 3 percent year-to-date at Port Houston’s multipurpose facilities. However, steel imports increased 34 percent in November.
China’s Protranser delivered 13 sets of transformers from a factory in Wuhan to the UAE and Egypt via Shanghai.
Turkish heavy lift and engineered transport provider Hareket has completed the transportation and installation of heavy equipment at the Kırklareli power plant project in Türkiye.
South Africa-headquartered Vanguard has completed transport of at 50 m-long, 171-tonne cold box from the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia to a copper mine in Solwezi, Zambia.
