ABP BARROW HANDLES HEAVY POWER-GENERATING MACHINERY
Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Barrow has recently handled a shipment of power-generating machinery, manufactured by Siemens, the German engineering company, and bound for the new Stevens Croft biomass power plant in Lockerbie, Scotland.
After delivery to Barrow by m.v. Hanne Danica, the load – consisting of a steam turbine weighing 191 tonnes, a generator weighing 90 tonnes, and a third piece of equipment weighing 7.5 tonnes – was transported by road to Lockerbie by Abnormal Load Engineering, a haulage company based in Hixon, Staffordshire. The trailer carrying the load had an overall length of 70.6 metres, was 6.85 metres wide and 5.2 metres high. It left the Port of Barrow at 2000 hours on Saturday, 28 April, as planned, with the journey to Lockerbie estimated to take two days.
Nick Ridehalgh, ABP Port Manager, North-West Ports, said: “The Port of Barrow has a long history of handling out-of-gauge, heavy and abnormal loads, without any untoward incident, and the route from the port to the M6 is recognised as suitable for such loads.”
He added: “However, this cargo is not the heaviest ever handled at Barrow, which is believed to have been a 700-tonne pre-fabricated module for British Gas, delivered to the port in 1993 as part of the North Morecambe Gas Terminal development.”
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