Export of Liebherr Dock Cranes to Shanghai
One of our regular contracts is to supply haulage for Liebherr Sunderland Works UK Ltd, who manufacture and supply dock and ship mounted cranes to a worldwide market.
Although the range of cranes Liebherr manufacture vary greatly in size and application, they all have one thing in common - they leave the Sunderland works as very abnormal loads. We recently transported two cranes in their disassembled component parts to Sunderland dock on 16 trailers. Although the gross weight of the largest load (76,000 Kgs) was not problematic, the combination of overall length, width and height necessitated the removal / replacement of several items of street furniture en route to the docks. The transport of this ships slewing column took place at 1am under escort as we needed to run contra the flow of traffic to negotiate an overhead pedestrian walkway and roundabout. The street furniture removal / replacement had already been organised with Sunderland City Council to ensure a smooth run to the docks and to keep disruption to the public to a bare minimum.