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Freight: Rotor blade

Pickup: Turkey

Destination: Spain

After the importing vessel was heavily delayed, Bremer Lloyd has been asked to work out a solution to transport a test rotor blade on the fastest way to a rotor blade test centre. The rotor blade has been discharged in Turkey and Bremer Lloyd fixed a vessel, which brought the rotor blade on a direct basis to Spain, where a truck was already waiting, enabling to deliver the rotor blade in time to the laboratory.

Freight: drilling-rig

Pickup: Renchen (Germany)

Destination: Chennai (India)

Bremer Lloyd was tasked with delivering a drilling-rig from Renchen in Germany to Chennai in India. The challenge here was the short notice and tight schedule. To save time for the permits for road transport, we loaded the rig with a weight of 41,8 tons and a length of 18,2 meters onto a river barge in Kehl and shipped it to Antwerp. Here, the track driven machine was loaded onto a Ro/Ro vessel bound for India.

Freight: Rotor house

Pickup: Zeebrügge (Belgium)

Destination: Montoir (France)

Bremer Lloyd has recently been awarded with the transport of a rotor house from Zeebrugge to Montoir. The circumstances that the rotor house had a diameter of more than 7 metres, lead to the decision to charter in a coaster vessel, which transported the rotor house directly to Montoir.

Freight: Wind turbine

Pickup: Germay

Destination: Corwen (Great Britain)

Bremer Lloyd has delivered a wind turbine from Germany to Corwen (UK). Since the components were supposed to be transported with special vehicles over the road up to the job site, a route survey of the narrow and winding British country roads was conducted, to make sure that the long and heavy components can fit without any problems and can be safely delivered to their final destination.

Freight: Weser ferry

Pickup: Bremen

Destination: Londonderry

Bremer Lloyd has been awarded with the elaboration of a transport concept and the transport realization of a used Weser ferry. From the technical elaboration, to the procurement of the required lifting equipment, the coordination of loading and the chartering of the sea vessel, was everything in the responsibility of Bremer Lloyd.

Freight: Rotor blades

Pickup: Arkansas (USA)

Destination: Germany

Bremer Lloyd has again been awarded with the pickup of wind turbine blades ex works. The blades have been picked up in Arkansas and transported to the port of Houston, where they have been loaded on to a chartered sea vessel and shipped to Germany. The pickup and delivery was performed punctually and without any complications.

Freight: 3 wind turbines

Pickup: Germany

Destination: Northern Ireland

Bremer Lloyd has been awarded with the transport of three complete wind turbines from Germany to Northern Ireland. Next to the land transports, connected to the pre-assembly of the turbines, Bremer Lloyd also organized the main transport via the nearest seaport, the just-in-time delivery to the location of the foundation and the supply of the required equipment.

Freight: 7 cable drums

Pickup: Switzerland

Destination: Hong Kong

Bremer Lloyd has been awarded with the transport of seven cable drums with a unit weight of up to 120 m/tons from Switzerland to the destination in Hong Kong. Bremer Lloyd arranged for the direct loading of the heavy units from the truck to the dedicated barge the transport to the seaport. There the cable drums have been loaded onto the mother vessel by means of a floating crane and the sea transport to Hong Kong, ensuring a timely arrival for this time sensitive cargo.

Freight: Overall 210 wind turbine blades

Pickup: Stade

Destination: Saßnitz

Bremer Lloyd has been awarded with the tower and blade transport of 70 offshore windmill turbines for the “Wikinger 2” project until 2017. Within the scope of this project, Bremer Lloyd transports over several voyages 210 windmill blades with 66 metres length from Stade to Sassnitz. The evaluation, choice of the most suitable vessel, accompanied by developing and performing constructional modifications of the vessel by Bremer Lloyd ensuring, that both towers and blades can be loaded, was essential to receive this award.

Freight: Towers for 70 wind turbines

Pickup: Stade

Destination: Saßnitz

Bremer Lloyd has been awarded with the tower and blade transport of 70 offshore windmill turbines for the “Wikinger 2” project until 2017. Within the scope of this project, Bremer Lloyd transports over several voyages 210 windmill blades with 66 metres length from Stade to Sassnitz. The evaluation, choice of the most suitable vessel, accompanied by developing and performing constructional modifications of the vessel by Bremer Lloyd ensuring, that both towers and blades can be loaded, was essential to receive this award.