Kazakhstan / Russia by road

We have done numerous shipments for other North East based engineering companies to areas such as Kazakhstan and Russia.

For one customer, we did a shipment to Perm in Russia (check the map, it is a long way and a lot of it over poor roads!!). The shipment comprised 9 flat-bed loads of special fabricated steel work for a newbuild power station. Each load was 4.1 metres wide.

This would be regarded as ‘very wide’ under normal circumstances for moving equipment a short distance in the UK but to go such a long distance and through areas that would rarely have abnormal loads travelling through made it a particularly complicated job to plan and operate. 

A great deal of pre-planning was put into the job including extensive discussions with the client and the carriers. The loads went by ferry from UK to Finland and then overland in convoy. The regulations in Russia are daunting and unpredictable and the escorts needed to be well prepared for any eventuality…!!

For another company who had a major contract in Kazakhstan to provide cranage and heavy lifting, we helped transport a lot of the equipment in curtain siders and flat beds with some of the cargo out of gauge.  This again required a great deal of planning particularly in dealing with the border crossings.