UK based PD Ports has been congratulated for its recent management of a very special heavy load project cargo, which arrived into the Hull Container Terminal on the ‘Beluga Federation’ ship in June.

PD Ports was awarded the initial business through Transcar Projects Ltd a well respected international freight company, with a request to handle the special project cargo. The contract was won despite huge competition from other companies based on the Humber.

The special cargo was expected at the Saltend BP power station for which it was required as part of the power station’s cooling system.

The project involving the Beluga Federation, which transported the project cargo from Kandla, India, was completed in three days and involved the management of 4 heavy lifts, two weighing up at 135 tons each and two at 94 tons each. Another 73 cargo lifts of up to 37 tons each were also removed from the vessel.

The heavy lifting gear project called drew upon the wider resources of the PD Ports Group and involved the skills and disciplines of HCT and Middlesbrough based experts who reliably ensured the whole project went without any untoward incident or disruption to other commitments being conducted on the port terminal.

PD Ports has managed HCT since the early nineties and last year they entered a new contract to operate HCT for another 8 years. This will include fro its entirety about £4 million extral investment by PD Ports to upgrade the overall efficiency of its systems.

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