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09-22-2008 An extraordinary transport for Alstom !
LGE, jointly owned subsidiary of Heppner and Soflog-Telis, will handle the exception transport from France to Sweden of the world’s largest nuclear power plant turbine made by Alstom.
During the night of Saturday the 27 of September 2008 into early the next morning, LGE, an Industry service company specialized in the packaging and logistics of heavy industrial goods, will make an exceptional delivery by trail over a distance of 150 kilometers of the world’s largest nuclear power plant turbine, manufactured by the industrial group Alstom.
The last haulage of such a piece of machinery in France dates back 10 years ago.
A nuclear alternator stator weighing nearly 450 tons will thus leave Belfort, its production site, for transport to the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in southeast Sweden.
Three year’s of preparation and planning to meet a largely technical challenge
LGE will first convey the turbine by rail from Belfort to Strasbourg. The second leg of the journey will be by barge down the Rhine river to the final destination: Oskarshamn in Sweden.
The operation will mobilize a team of 10 technicians in total.
Many engineering projects were carried out to do this:
• A special 32-axle freight car was chartered for haulage to Strasbourg. Alternation work was done. At the city limits of Belfort, a bridge pier was taken down and replaced by a metal girder in order to allow the convoy to pass. The railway was restructured and raised to allow the convoy to pass above the guardrails of a bridge.
• The gantry at the Strasbourg Port, allowing the loading of the freight car onto the barge, was modified to support 460 tons from its original 350 limit.
This transport operation was subject to complex feasibility studies. Alstom created a task force in close coordination with LGE for the logistics part in order to study the route along with the research departments of the SNCF, RFF and the STSI, subsidiary of the SNCF in charge of exceptional transport. Additionally a complete reconnaissance mission of the itinerary was done. This exceptional convoy also required a transport permit that was delivered by the SNCF after studying and verifying the route, meter by meter.
Of note, haulage will take place during the night, to avoid disrupting in as much as is possible normal traffic circulation.
