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harborside freight track is only 602 meters long. The two trains transport some 6,000 tons of coking coal to Salzgitter every day. After the vital cargo has been unloaded, the train makes its way back to Hamburg.
Heading off-road with
45,000 tons of steel
Sometimes steel has to make extreme journeys
– one such trip saw material transported across the Atlantic and then through rough terrain to construct a 200 MW power plant in Costa Rica. Augsburg-based large engine manufacturer MAN Diesel built the plant, while the transport spe- cialists Goldhofer AG, a Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH customer, was responsible for moving
the 45,000 tons of construction material to the building site. An imposing 18-axle heavy duty transporter lugged eleven giant diesel generator sets with a weight of 325 tons each (photo right) and other components to the site. But would the road be able to cope with such a heavy transport convoy? In short – there wasn’t a road. Large sec- tions of the route took the transporter off-road and even saw it cross a river at one point. The vehicles needed several months to transport all compo- nents to the site.
The world’s largest swing
bridge
Some bridges fold up to allow ships to pass, like the Tower Bridge in London. Others, like the El-Ferdan Bridge, swing to the side: The rail bridge spanning the Suez Canal measures 640 meters in length, and tops out at 60 meters, making it the world’s largest swing bridge. It divides into two halves, with each swinging towards opposing banks. KSH Stahlbau Hannover GmbH built the bridge between 1998 and 2001, and required a total of 10,500 tons of steel in the process, of which some was supplied by Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH (ILG). The swing bridge is permanently open, as the rail connection is decommissioned at present.
Steel for the tropics
In 2010, the London-based company “Chica-
go Bridge and Iron Company” (CB&I) ordered 3,400 tons of nickel plate from Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH (ILG). 3,175 tons of this order were shipped from Hamburg Harbor in May 2001 alone and made their way to Papua New Guinea by ship. On location, CB&I used the Ilsenburger plate to build two special tanks holding around
6.6 million tons of liquid gas. The tanks are part of a liquefaction facility near Port Moresby, where gas is liquefied - following 700 kilometers of pipeline transport - before being pumped onto tanker vessels.
38 EXTREME STEEL
The coking coal express
The heaviest coil