AsstrA Heavy Lift completes project for Kronospan
International transport-logistics company AsstrA Associated Traffic AG has successfully completed an oversized cargo delivery project, from Villabrazaro, Spain to Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. The project lasted from May to July 2017. The AsstrA Wood and Paper Division, which serves clients from the woodworking, pulp, and paper industries, handled this unusual project involving the delivery of a chipboard production plant from Spain to Bulgaria.
The shipper was the Kronospan group of production companies, which needed to transport more than 100 oversized production line pieces designed for the manufacture of chipboards. Some of the parts and structures were reaching 5 meters in height and 5.5 m in width. AsstrA Heavy Lift experts in the Polish cities of Poznań and Gdańsk were directly involved in the preparation and implementation of the project.
A part of the plant, which consisted of over 50 oversized pieces, was originally delivered by land to the port of Leixioes, Portugal. Over 3 weeks, the load was gradually exported from Spain and then stored at a public warehouse. For delivery by sea, a special ship with a double loading deck known as a “twindecker” was commissioned. The cargo was delivered to the port of Varna, Bulgaria, 10 days after dispatch. Then 10 convoys of trucks carried it to the final place of discharge at the Kronospan factory in Veliko Tarnovo.
The second step was to transport the remaining 50 plant parts by road. Various reliable partners, carriers and transport companies, were chosen to complete transport simultaneously. Transportation was carried out exclusively at night.
