Trans Trading recently successfully handled a tamping machine with a total weight of 134 tons.

Type of shipment: RoRo

POL: Luebeck, Germany

POD: Hanko, Finland

Machine part 1 :20.83 x 3.10 x 4.29m, weight 79.1 tons

Machine part 2: 19.91 x 2.87 x 4.29m, 54.9 tons

Scope of Work:

• Discharge from railtrack onto roll trailer.
• Exchange bogies from standard gauge to broad gauge
• sea freight
• Discharge from roll trailer to railtrack

The process from disassembly, through handling and sea freight, to placement on the tracks (in Hanko) took six days. In two day, they handled one machine each on roll trailers.