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.