SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT
INTERNATIONAL AND SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT
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JULY 2013
30
Austria-based specialized
transport and lifting
company Felbermayr used
a specially adapted vessel
to transport a 294 tonne
generator from Austria to
Hungary.
IC
reports
S
pecialized transport and lifting
company Felbermayr transported
a generator weighing 294 tonnes
from the Linz heavy load port in Austria
to a power station in Hungary. A key
player in this transport project was
the heavy goods vessel,
Horst Felix
, a
dry freighter converted to a heavy
goods vessel.
For the first part of its journey the
generator, 12 metres long and 5 m wide,
was transported 800 kilometres from the
Siemens site in Mülheim on the Ruhr in
Germany to the Linz heavy load port in
Austria. The journey took 13 days.
Horst
Felix
was used for the second part of the
journey from the Linz port to the power
station in Hungary to avoid road tolls and
weight restrictions on bridges.
When the generator arrived at Linz it
was transferred onto a 1.5 coupled heavy
low-loader trailer with 12 axles before
being moved onto the vessel. According
to Peter Niedermair-Auer, Felbermayr
project manager, this vehicle was chosen
because of the generator’s weight
and dimensions.
Having been designed as a ro-ro ship,
Horst Felix
was an ideal choice for the
project. Niedermair-Auer explains, “With
a specially designed bow and a loading
ramp, the road transporter could drive
onto the ship directly. Because of these
ideal conditions the rolling on took little
more than an hour.”
Austria to Hungary
A 1.5 coupled 12-axle heavy low-loader trailer
moves the generator onto the Horst Felix
Travelling by vessel avoided road tolls and
weight restrictions on bridges
The trailer on the specially
designed loader ramp
