10,000 tonne building transported on SPMT

Using 300 axle lines of Scheuerle self propelled modular transporter (SPMT), China Shipping Vastwin Project Logistics moved a complex consisting of five buildings by 600 metres.

The transport broke three new records. (Photo: Tii Group)

The heaviest structure weighed 10,000 tonnes.

As a result, the heavy-load logistics and engineering service provider set three records: transporting the heaviest and tallest building, moving it over the longest distance and overcoming the largest difference in height.

The main building was 43 metres high and 36.9 metre long. (Photo: Tii Group)

Project details

Vastwin, a subsidiary of the state-owned shipping company China Ocean Shipping Group, were commissioned to move the five buildings, each one as a single entity, by a distance of 600 metres and also had to overcome a height difference of three metres.

The complex comprised the main building weighing 10,000 tonnes as well as two outbuildings, each weighing 2,000 tonnes, along with an archway and one partition wall, each weighing 1,000 tonnes.

For transporting the 43 metre high, 36.9 metre long and 31.5 metre wide main building, TII Scheuerle provided 300 SPMT axle lines and ten power pack units (PPU).

300 SPMT axle lines and ten power pack units were used for the operation. (Photo: Tii Group)

Breaking records

Once again, SPMT modules from TII Scheuerle are involved in setting new transport records. As previously reported, Chinese heavy goods logistics company Sinotrans Heavy-Lift was tasked with repositioning a 7,500 tonne hotel by 500 metres using 254 SPMT axle lines.

Now the triple record set by China Shipping Vastwin Project Logistics has replaced this achievement.