HLPFI reviews the finalists for the 2025 Project of the Year Award, sponsored by Blue Bell Shipping.
This award will be presented to a logistics provider for the successful coordination of a large-scale, complex logistics project, involving the door-to-door delivery of multiple oversize and/or heavy cargoes. This award can be entered jointly to reflect logistics and/or transport partners or individually.
Our 2025 shortlist includes:
CJ ICM
For this award, CJ ICM outlined its involvement in a project which saw five power plants relocated from Türkiye to Uzbekistan. CJ ICM handled over 9,500 tonnes of heavy lift and out-of-gauge (OOG) power plant equipment, including 30 Wartsila engines – each weighing up to 300 tonnes. Managing the complete scope of the project, CJ ICM dismantled and transported the engines across Türkiye, then via canal vessels to Kazakhstan, before an inland journey of more than 2,000 km.
Comark
Slovenia-based Comark dismantled and transported a dozen 5.5 m-wide fermenters from Ljubljana to South Africa during the busy Christmas season, navigating Slovenia’s most famous and difficult mountain road. The company received praise from our judges for its ability to navigate tough weather conditions and narrow mountain roads, and to deliver the cargo undamaged and in a timely manner.
deugro
deugro highlighted its work in delivering almost 200,000 freight tons of oversized and heavy lift (OHSL) components to a major petrochemical project in Texas, USA. The OHSL cargo, along with 500 teu and over 80 tonnes of airfreight, had to be collected from more than 20 different facilities, suppliers, seaports and airports in almost 20 countries. deugro used a multimodal approach to transport the project cargo, including truck, barge, aircraft and heavy lift vessels.
Edwards Moving and Rigging
Edwards Moving & Rigging transported Class 7 radioactive components from Florida to Texas via barge, which were offloaded ready for a long-haul road move. The company opted for a Goldhofer Faktor 5 high-girder bridge combination for the 1,595 km journey that spanned 30 days per shipment. The project earned strong praise from our judging panel, particularly for the safe and precise handling of radioactive components.
J M Baxi Heavy
India’s J M Baxi Heavy put forward its efforts in delivering two nitric oxide synthase (NOS) reactors, which each weighed 1,005 tonnes and measured 48 m x 8.5 m x 7.5 m. The scope of work involved complex planning and engineering, such as utilising canals, dismantling toll structures, navigating narrow village roads and facing extreme weather conditions. J M Baxi Heavy was commended for its ability to cut transport time, having saved 78 days on the larger second shipment by applying lessons learned from the first.
Öznakliyat & GAP CLK Worldwide
The entry from Öznakliyat & GAP CLK Worldwide, a joint venture between heavy transport firm Öznakliyat and global forwarder GAP CLK Worldwide, showcased its contribution towards the Talimarjan power plant expansion project in Uzbekistan. The joint venture was responsible for port operations, ship and barge chartering, road transports, lifting, lowering and on-base operations, and route modifications together with local authorities. Cargos weighing as much as 417 tonnes were transported over a 2,100 km route, by road.
Prism Logistics
Delivering loads of up to 2,500 tonnes, Prism Logistics was tasked with transporting three massive reactors across more than 1,600 km by road and upwards of 400 nautical miles by sea. During the project, Prism built over 50 bypasses across India, including one stretching 2 km in flowing waters, and installed three modular bridges which each used 600-plus tonnes of raw steel. Our judging panel praised the company for orchestrating the project move in a location as challenging as India.
Total Movements
Total Movements transported 22 super-heavy pieces in a complex multimodal route through Bangladesh and India. A part of the Numaligarh refinery expansion project in Assam, India, Total Movements’ scope of work included converting a foreign vessel to Indian flag status, reinforcing barges, dredging river channels, and building a custom mooring jetty and bridge – the complexity of which were acknowledged by our judges.
The winner of this year’s Project of the Year Award will be announced at the Heavy Lift Awards 2025 ceremony on October 22 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. To join the celebrations, book your place today.
