On May 18 Volga-Dnepr transported a 32 m-long rocket booster from Huntsville in Alabama to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA.
The rocket booster will be used on United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket, as part of NASA’s next Mars rover mission.
Volga-Dnepr also transported payload fairings and RD-180 engines for the mission.
Upon receiving the cargo, ULA moved the rocket into the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center for post-shipment checks. The launch is scheduled for July 17.
NASA’s Crawler-Transport 2 (CT-2) has moved the most powerful rocket ever built to the Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39C in preparation for its maiden launch around the Moon, which will take place no earlier than August 29.
Transport engineering specialist Omega Morgan has experienced growing demand for its industrial services in Houston and Boise, USA, and has strengthened its teams accordingly.
The New Bedford Foss Marine Terminal in Massachusetts, USA, is set to begin operations this summer.
USA-based Engineered Rigging, on behalf of DSV Global Transport and Logistics and general contractor Echeverria Izquierdo Montajes Industriales, has offloaded and installed a 117-ton (106-tonne) gas scrubber at the ENAP Aconcagua refinery in Chile.
China’s Protranser has coordinated the delivery of over 6,000 cu m of engineering vehicles for mining projects from Shanghai and Lianyungang, China, to Madagascar.
Mexican heavy haulage company Pesado Transport has delivered a 218-ton (197-tonne) gas compressor on a 16-axle Goldhofer THP/SL heavy-duty combination from the port in Veracruz to the Miguel Hidalgo refinery in Tula.
