The movement of super-heavy cargo items is challenging and requires intensive collaboration between clients, suppliers, and Bertling's technical, engineering, and operational divisions. At Bertling, clients get everything in-house. Bertling's heavy-lift and technical team is an industry leader in the transportation of over-dimensional, abnormal, and heavy-lift cargoes. Skilled heavy-lift experts and naval architects design, implement, manage and survey tailor-made handling methods, transportation arrangements, and shipping concepts both from their home offices and in the field.

Bertling believes that its capabilities are crucial to achieving goals. Its engineers and technical managers are qualified specialists with CAD skills, lifting, and HSE certification who have in-depth expertise and know the business inside out.

BERTLING'S HEAVY-LIFT KEY COMPETENCIES PERFORMED GLOBALLY

• supervision of cargo securing and handling
• development of methodologies and procedures for the most challenging projects in difficult regions
• feasibility studies, route, and marine surveys, and infrastructure evaluations in the remotest areas
• complete and professional sub-contractor selection and management
• continuous risk assessments

CASE STUDY: TRANSPORT OF HEAVY OIL RIG EQUIPMENT TO SINGAPORE

Heavy-lift experts from Bertling Logistics in Singapore successfully transported a Ram Rig Hoisting Yoke and X-Mas Tree Trolley & BOP trolley Rack & Pinion from Poland via Hamburg to Singapore. The heaviest cargo weighed 91 tonnes, while the largest cargo measured 10.8m x 8.9m x 3.8m.

• POL: Gdynia, Poland
• POD: Singapore
• Industry: Oil & Gas
• Volume: 200 tonnes
• Bertling Team: Singapore, Bremen

This project encompassed the transport of about 200 tonnes of cargoes for which Bertling handled the pre-carriage from the factory to Gdynia Port including loading via floating crane onto the coastal vessel for a voyage from Poland to Hamburg. Moreover, Bertling arranged for the overside loading onto the heavy-lift vessel for a voyage from Hamburg to Singapore, the overside discharging from a vessel onto a barge in Singapore as well as the on-carriage from Jurong Port to the project site yard.

All cargo moves are executed under the most stringent requirements concerning health, safety, and the environment. These requirements apply to each office, employee, and project at Bertling, worldwide. The sub-contractors Bertling works with are assessed on the basis of the quality of their work and observance of the best HSE and ethical practices. On this basis, Bertling strives for best industry practices together with an economy of scale for each client and project.

Bertling develops bespoke engineering solutions for all of its projects. These solutions range from the design and build of support frames, suitability evaluations of handling and transport equipment, drawings and calculations, handling methods, lashing and securing solutions, and detailed reporting.

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