TRIMARAN ON SCHEUERLE SPMT

TRIMARAN ON SCHEUERLE SPMT

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MODULE TRANSPORTERS MASTER EVEN NARROW SPACES WITH EASE

With the help of a total of 80 SPMT axle lines, the more than 700 tonne and almost 83 meter long high-speed ferry Queen Beetle got from the production hall to the water. The heavy goods professionals at Tutt Bryant Heavy Lift & Shift did a precision job and were able to rely on the “made in Pfedelbach” technology.

The Queen Beetle, a high-speed trimaran ferry, will soon connect the Japanese city of Fukuoka with the South Korean port metropolis of Busan and will reach a speed of 37 knots (almost 70 km / h) during the crossing. But before it could be used for the first time, the 83.5-meter-long and empty 770-ton ship had to get from the production hall to the water. It was less rapid. This made the demands of the valuable goods in terms of safety and precision all the higher. The Austal, manufacturer of the Queen Beetle, commissioned the heavy goods specialists from Tutt Bryant Heavy Lift & Shift (TBHLS) to carry out the transport on the site of the shipyard in Henderson in Western Australia.

Two SPMT platforms, each with 40 axle lines and two PPUs, do the hard work

The TBHLS experts used two 40 SPMT axle lines (Self Propelled Modular Transporter) from SCHEUERLE, a company of the Transporter Industry International Group (TII Group), to bring the 1130-ton transport, including the axle lines and transport racks, to the water. In addition, two PPU (Power Pack Units), which also come from SCHEUERLE, were used to generate the drive power for the two SPMT transport platforms. The SPMT axle lines are part of the vehicle fleet of the Australia Marine Complex (AMC), which manages the vehicles while TBHLS operates them.

SCHEUERLE SPMT - Photo: SCHEUERLE
SCHEUERLE SPMT – Photo: SCHEUERLE

Precise steering allows you to avoid obstacles

The route from the production hall to the ship lift, with the help of which the Queen Beetle was to get into the water, was full of obstacles at the time of the transport. Numerous other boats were maintained on the area. For the SPMT and the experienced team of TBHLS operators, this was not an insurmountable obstacle. Thanks to the wealth of experience and the sophisticated electronic steering of the module transporter, which allows a positioning accuracy of +/- two millimeters, they navigated the high-tech ferry precisely Aim – despite sharp turns and other spectacular maneuvers. «I had the privilege to be involved on projects that utilized the 1st generation SPMT up to the 3rd generation and most of the SPMT operators I’ve worked with have common conclusion, that the functionality of the SCHEUERLE SPMT’s is more superior compared to other models»; says Felix Marquez Jr., Senior Project Engineer at TBHLS.

SALSA software from SCHEUERLE enables planning of the transport route

According to Felix Marquez Jr., the SCHEUERLE planning software SALSA plus also contributed to the successful execution of the transport. With their help, so-called sweep path simulations (areas covered by the transport) could be used to calculate how obstacles on the transport route can be safely avoided.

SPMT significa carga útil ilimitada

Já em 1983, a SCHEUERLE desenvolveu as plataformas modulares de transporte SPMT e, assim, melhorou de forma sustentável a forma como as cargas elevadas são transportadas. A carga útil aumentou repentinamente devido às diversas opções de acoplamento com a introdução do SPMT. Hoje, as combinações de SPMT alcançam cargas úteis teoricamente ilimitadas. Isto permite que as fábricas produzam e depois transportem máquinas/peças cada vez maiores. A vantagem para as empresas é cada vez mais eficiência económica. As linhas de eixo SPMT da SCHEUERLE são, portanto, soluções de transporte muito populares em todo o mundo. A empresa é líder de mercado neste segmento.

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