Critical Units Weighing Up To 889 Tonnes Were Shipped from South Korea and China
deugro has successfully delivered some 120,000 freight tonnes of petrochemical equipment from multiple locations in Asia to the EGAT project in the town of Police, northwest Poland.
The cargo shipped for client Hyundai Engineering included a 96-metre-long propylene-propane splitter weighing 889 tonnes, five 72-metre-long propylene storage bullets weighing 614 tonnes a piece and a 44-metre-long reactor weighing almost 600 tonnes.
The most critical oversized and heavy-lift units were loaded onto two MPVs at the Ports of Gunsan and Masan in South Korea and the Port of Zhangjiagang in China, then transported to Poland’s Port of Morski.
With temperatures at Morski plummeting to minus 17 Celsius, ice breakers and tugs had to be deployed before vessels were allowed to berth.
Once safely moored, deugro and its engineering division dteq oversaw the discharge of the cargo onto barges for onward transportation to the Barkowy jetty, six kilometres away.
The final leg of the ambitious move saw the units picked up by self-propelled modular transporters, or SPMTs, and carried via the town of Police to the construction site another six kilometres away.
Local regulations meant the cargo could only be transported at night.
The preparation stage took nearly a year, with extensive traffic management measures in Poland carried out ahead of the move, said Eun-Ji Baek, project manager at deugro Korea.
“These included the construction of new roads, a temporary 650-metric-tonne bridge and a new site entrance, the modification of a building along the route and several road widenings. Streetlamps had to be replaced by foldable types, electric railway wires disassembled, local 110-kilovolt power lines shut down and steam pipes and medium-voltage wires moved underground.”
Check out a video of the move:
PHOTO MAIN: Barging operation at the Barkowy jetty, Poland. CREDIT: deugro
PHOTO INSERT: Vessel arrival at the Port of Morski, Poland. CREDIT: deugro
