October 31 - Heavy haulage specialist Kocaman Transport, headquartered in Mersin, Turkey has transported six 150 tonne boilers from Iskenderun on the Mediterranean coast of the country to Baiji, Iraq.
Due to the extreme height of the shipment on its low loader trailers, Alper Sevim of Kocaman said the family-owned company had at one point to send in engineers to cut and temporarily reposition a bridge in order for the extra-high shipment to pass under it.
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