Stevens Towing Company has delivered three pieces of tunnel boring equipment from Norfolk to Alexandria in Virginia, USA.
A 350-ton (226-tonnes) floating crane loaded the equipment onto a 61 m x 18 m inland deck barge. Once the cargo was secured on stands and beams, the barge began its journey up the Potomac River utilising Stevens Towing’s push boat Island Fox to a roll off location outside Alexandria.
At its final location, the equipment was rolled off by SPMTs and placed into storage.
USA-based Stevens Towing has been busy supporting the movement of cable reels and prototype wind turbine blades in recent months.
Stevens Towing partnered with Edwards Moving and Rigging and Crofton Diving to assist in the removal of a decommissioned nuclear reactor from the NS Savannah in Baltimore, USA.
USA-based Stevens Towing has delivered heavy and oversized cargoes for a paper mill in Macon, Georgia.
French heavy lifting company Mediaco Heavy Lift has used an Enerpac SL200 hydraulic gantry system to remove a 13 m-long industrial lathe from a factory in La Buffiere, France.
Express Global Logistics (EXG) has coordinated the delivery of an ammonia converter and ammonia chiller, weighing 530 tonnes and 220 tonnes respectively, across India.
Deufol Döhle Projects (DDP) and ARC Logistics, both members of the XLProjects (XLP) network, have collaborated on the delivery of critical cargo for a project in New South Wales, as part of the ongoing growth of the Australian renewables and infrastructure sector.
