UK-headquartered heavy transport engineering specialist Allelys has offloaded, delivered and installed four transformers, weighing 255 tonnes, for the Dogger Bank wind farm.
The cargoes were received in two shipments at Albert Dock in Hull, where the team lifted the units using Allelys’ LG1550 crane onto a 10-axle SPMT and shunted them to a storage location for transhipment on to its 350-tonne capacity girder frame trailer. They were then transported before the next shipment arrived.
The transformers, measuring 9.5 m x 4.9 m x 4.9 m, were transported over four consecutive weekends to the Creyke Beck substation.
The transport arrangement, measuring 70 m long and weighing 397 tonnes, had to navigate a challenging route, which included three structures that required bridge inspections and AIP’s to be submitted. The significant road works and road layout changes at Jock’s Lodge also posed a challenge, however the team identified and established a new route in advance of the project start date.
Source: heavyliftpfi.com
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